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Palarapublication of the Afro–Latin/American Research Association Publication of the Afro–Latin/American Research Association (Palara) ISSN 2639-1295 Fall 2018 • Issue 22 PALARAPublication of the Afro–Latin/American Research Association Publication of the Afro–Latin/American Research Association (palara) Founders Deborah Atwater Alice Mills LaVerne Seales Soley David Covin Edward J. Mullen Carlos Guillermo Wilson* Clélia Reis Geha Mary Jo Muratore Caroll Mills Young* Ana Beatriz Gonçalves Laurence E. Prescott* Marvin A. Lewis Henry Richards *deceased Editors Sonja Watson, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Texas at Arlington Dorothy Mosby, Associate Dean of Faculty, Professor, Department of Spanish, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies Africana Studies Program, Mount Holyoke College Editorial Board Milagros Carazas—National University of Peru, San Marcos Digna Castañeda—University of Havana Christine Clark-Evans—Pennsylvania State University Dawn Duke—University of Tennessee, Knoxville Anani Dzidzieyo—Brown University Leslie Feracho—University of Georgia, Athens Ana Beatriz Gonçalves—Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil Conrad James—University of Birmingham, UK Joseph Jordan—University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill John Lipski—Pennsylvania State University William Luis—Vanderbilt University Mary Jo Muratore—University of Missouri, Columbia M’Bare N’Gom—Morgan State University Paulette Ramsay—University of the West Indies - Mona, Jamaica Elisa Rizo—Iowa State University Maria Aparecida Salgueiro—State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Dawn F. Stinchcomb—Purdue University Antonio D. Tillis—University of Houston International Scholars/Writers Conceição Evaristo—Brazil Juan Tomás Ávila—Equatorial Guinea The Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association (PaLaRa), a multi-lingual journal devoted to African diaspora studies, is published annually by the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries and Mount Holyoke College. PaLaRa is multidisciplinary and publishes research and creativity relevant to diaspora studies in the Americas. Manuscripts should conform to the latest style manual of the Modern Language Association (MLA) or Chicago Manual of Style and may not exceed twenty-five pages in length. Effective November 1, 2017, all articles for review must be submitted through the open access system at https://journals.tdl.org/palara/index.php/palara/ index. In order for your manuscript or book review to be considered for publication with PaLaRa in the fall, then that manuscript or book review must be submitted by July 1 of that same year. Book reviews should be 1500 words and follow MLA or Chicago Manual of Style. All correspondence regarding subscriptions as well as manuscripts for submission should be addressed to: Dr. Sonja S. Watson and Dr. Dorothy Mosby @ [email protected]. UTA Mavs Open Press: Jody Bailey, Kyle Pinkos Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International ISSN 2639-1295 Fall 2018 • Issue 22 PALARAPublication of the Afro–Latin/American Research Association Articles 5 “Son asimilados”: Mayra Montero vis-à-vis Tomás Blanco y el discurso racial en Puerto Rico Violeta Lorenzo Feliciano 15 Afro-Hispanic Aesthetics and Identity through the Cuban Underground Hip Hop of Los Paisanos and Obsesión Jessie D. Dixon-Montgomery 29 The Representation of Latin@s in Media: A Negation of Blackness Yadira Nieves-Pizarro Book Reviews 39 Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico Author: Ileana Rodríguez-Silva Reviewer: William Guzmán 41 Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Author: Vanessa K. Valdés Reviewer: Casarae Gibson 43 Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity Author: Tanya Saunders Reviewer: Sarah Ohmer 47 Nelson Estupiñán Bass: una introducción a sus escritos Author: Marvin A. Lewis Reviewer: Paulette A. Ramsay Other ii PaLaRa Publication Guidelines iii Editor’s Note Dr. Sonja Stephenson Watson and Dr. Dorothy Mosby 1 Remembering Dr. Flore Zéphir Sheridan Wigginton 3 Tribute to the “Last Buffalo”: Panamanian West Indian Writer Dr. Carlos E. Russell (1934-2018) Sonja Stephenson Watson 49 Contributor Biographies 51 Call for Fall 2019 issue 52 SUNY Series, Afro Latinx Futures 53 Book Announcement 54 Obituary Dr. Carlos E. Russell Page ii PALARA Publication Guidelines 1. All articles for review must be submitted through the open access system at https://journals. tdl.org/palara/index.php/palara/index. 2. In order for your manuscript or book review to be considered for publication with PaLaRa in the fall, then that manuscript or book review must be submitted by July 1 of that same year. 3. Manuscripts must include an abstract of 100–200 words. The abstract should provide the major objectives, methods used, findings, and conclusions. The abstract should not include references or footnotes. 4. The minimum number of text pages for a manuscript is 18 and the maximum is 25. In addition, the manuscript should follow publication guidelines of the latest edition of the Modern Language Association (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/) or Chicago Manual of Style (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/) 5. Use endnotes and not footnotes. 6. Book reviews should be 1500 words and follow MLA or Chicago style. Publication of the afro-latin/american research association (Palara) fall 2018 • issue 22 Page iii Editor’s Note Dorothy Mosby • Mount Holyoke Sonja Stephenson Watson • University of Texas at Arlington t was a pleasure seeing many of you at the 12th biennial the same level of critical attention as his contemporaries, Dr. international/interdisciplinary research conference of Carlos “Cubena” Wilson (1941-2016) and Professor Gerardo Ithe Afro-Latin/American Research Association (ALARA) Maloney (1945); however, his impact was equally significant hosted by the University of Houston where ALARA Treasurer because of his commitment to political activism and the de- Antonio D. Tillis serves as Dean of the College of Arts & velopment of Panamanian West Indian intellectual thought. Sciences. Although this was the first time that ALARA was Watson’s tribute sheds light on Russell’s black intellectual- held domestically, in her welcome address, ALARA President ism, activism, and legacy. Sheridan Wigginton summarized perfectly why Houston As we look to more contemporary issues of race and was and continues to be an ideal place to host ALARA. She national identity, this current volume of PaLaRa features noted that Houston has “the third-largest population of un- several pieces on Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Violeta documented immigrants in the country” and foreshadows Lorenzo Feliciano’s article, “Son asimilados”: Mayra what many cities in the United States will look like because Montero vis-à-vis Tomás Blanco y el discurso racial en of its racial, linguistic, and cultural diversity. Wigginton Puerto Rico,” analyzes Montero’s contemporary essay “El noted the following: entierro de Chianita: un complot chino” through the lens of Blanco’s seminal early twentieth-century text El prejuicio If the foundational work of ALARA can be boiled racial en Puerto Rico which perpetuated the image of Puerto down to anything, it’s found in the essence…that is: How Rico as a racial democracy and a country of jíbaros and non- do the people living as “the other” in a society negotiate blacks. Will Guzmán’s review of Silencing Race: Disentangling their lived experiences within a society whose historical Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto default setting is to diminish, if not destroy, what makes Rico by Ileana Rodríguez-Silva provides another analysis those supposed “others” human? And equals. Our mem- of Puerto Rico’s issue with race, national identity, and bership tends to investigate this very question through whiteness. These issues of course are not isolated to Puerto the various lenses of cultural production. Rico and represent those in other countries with signifi- cant African Diaspora populations. Casarae Gibson’s review Indeed, ALARA and PaLaRa seek to interrogate the of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso notion of the “Other” and bring new voices to the table. The Schomburg by Vanessa K. Valdés illustrates how the Puerto fall 2018 issue of PaLaRa seeks to continue this dialogue Rican-born Harlemnite “forg[ed] cross-cultural connections and engage scholarship on the past, present, and future of between African communities in the Americas” and sought peoples of African descent in the Americas. to incorporate “Afro-latinidad as part of the fabric of U.S. We open this issue with Wigginton’s tribute to Dr. politics and culture.” Flore Zéphir (1958-2017), one of the founding members of Yadira Nieves-Pizarro’s “The Representation of Latin@s ALARA. Dr. Zéphir contributed not only to the advancement in the Media: A Negation of Blackness” provides another of French/Haitian Creole linguistics and foreign language reading of Afro-Latin@ culture from a contemporary per- education, but she also had an impact on the professional spective through the lens of mainstream media and the development of graduate students and scholars in the field. portrayal or negation of black Latinos. Nieves-Pizarro A faithful attendee of ALARA conferences, her presence was reminds us that although there has been improvement in notably absent and missed in Houston. recent years, there is still a long way to go with respect to In the world of Afro-Panamanian writing, we lost the representation of Afro-Latin@s in the media. another key literary figure. Sonja Stephenson Watson
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