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<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Courier New</param>AfroCubaWeb Newsletter #7, 1/10/2000
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Music listings: Cubanismo!, Chucho Valdez
Quartet, Buena Vista Social Club (the video
is out), AfroCuban All Stars, Los Muñequitos,
Omar Sosa, Manolito y su Trabuco, Bamboleo,
others. Sierra Maestra releases new film.
Van Van returns to the US! Conjunto
Folklorico in London!
Author Pedro Pérez Sarduy to do "Voices of
AfroCubans 2000" US tour, 3/00 to 5/00,
presenting a multi-media seminar and a new
book with forewords by Manning Marable and
James Early -- the first treatment ever of
racial issues in contemporary Cuba that
privileges AfroCuban voices on the island.
Dates available.
"Elián's tragedy and El Duque's betrayal of
AfroCubans" by Alberto Jones
Muralist Salvador González from the Callejon de
Hamel, Havana, visits NY for several months.
Lisa Brock article goes to the heart of the
issues around race and Cuba, a must for anyone
interested in solidarity work: "Reflections
on Cuba: History, Memory, Race, and Solidarity"
Former Afrocuba de Matanzas dancer, singer, and
percussionist Rey Gonzalez has moved to Boston
where he is giving classes and workshops.
Letra del Año - Predicciones de Ifa para el año
2000 por la Comision Organizadora de la Letra
del Anno
The publisher Ediciones Universales sent us
their catalog with the classics from Lydia
Cabrera and Fernando Ortiz as well as modern
authors.
Call for proposals on African Religious
Influences in our Americas at the XXth Festival
del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba, 7/2000
The Martí-Maceo Society of Tampa, the oldest
AfroCuban organization in the US, founded in
1899, is celebrating its centennial and is
urgently seeking contacts and support to
survive.
Reynaldo Peñalver, a journalist who played an
important role in the movement of black
social organizations to combat racial
discrimination in pre-revolutionary Cuba,
died November 29th, 1999.
A black gay site with controversial articles on
Cuba: BlackLightonline. This site has sparked
a discussion on the theme of racism in Cuba
which includes an excellent response by Lisa Brock.
Robert F. Williams' book "Negroes with Guns"
reprinted and new book out on Radio Free Dixie,
which he ran from Havana in the 60's.
More recent books: Changing History: Afro-Cuban
Cabildos and Societies of Color in the
Nineteenth Century, by Phillip Howard, Insurgent
Cuba: Race, Nation, And Revolution, 1868-1898,
352 pgs, 9/29/99, by NYU's Ada Ferrer, and
Nationalizing Blackness by Temple's Robin D.
Moore
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