AfroCubaWeb Newsletter #7, 1/10/2000 4851


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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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