Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow

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Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Making Diaspora in the Shadow of Empire and Jim Crow 1 1 Forging Diaspora in the Midst of Empire: The Tuskegee-Cuba Connection 17 2 Un Dios, Un Fin, Un Destino: Enacting Diaspora in the Garvey Movement 61 3 Blues and Son from Harlem to Havana 107 4 Destination without Humiliation: Black Travel within the Routes of Discrimination 151 Epilogue 195 Notes 205 Bibliography 235 Index 251 Contents This page intentionally left blank Representatives of the different nationalities in the 1908 class of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute 19 The Club Atenas in Havana, shortly after it opened in 1930 58 Garvey Women’s Brigade, 1924 92 Captain Joshua Cockburn, Pablo Herrera, and Edward Smith-Green 95 The Black Star Line delegation with Cuban president Mario García Menocal 96 Gustavo Urrutia 122 Rare visual evidence of racial segregation in leisure practices in Cuba 128 Sketch of a Cuban woman by Miguel Covarrubias 130 Sketch of rumba dancers and musicians by Miguel Covarrubias 131 Ben Frederic Carruthers with Angel Suárez Rocabruna on the Cadena de las Américas radio program 179 The former Club Atenas building, July 2006 199 Ramiro de la Cuesta, July 2005 200 Nelio Danzie Cooper, July 2005 201 Barbara Danzie León, July 2005 202 Illustrations This page intentionally left blank ...