Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Raced Neoliberalism: Groundings for Hip Hop 29
2. Hip Hop Cubano: An Emergent Site of Black Life 57
3. New Revolutionary Horizons 91
4. Critical Self-Fashionings and Their Gendering 135
5. Racial Challenges and the State 171
6. Whither Hip Hop Cubano? 199
Postscript 235
Notes 239
References 255
Index 273
Marc D. Perry is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University.
"If you're not familiar with Cuban hip hop,Negro Soy Yo is an
excellent starting point to get the wheels turning in your head, to
start thinking about the music and all of the different places it
is coming from, what it’s discussing and why. Perry has given us an
excellent text to get people from outside of the island to consider
how the music communicates things about society that we don’t get
elsewhere."
*Scratched Vinyl*
"Negro Soy Yo makes a distinguished contribution to the study of
raced citizenship and the performance of blackness through the
self-fashioning of Cuban hip-hop."
*Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute*
"A necessary guide for understanding the present and future of
racialized social stratification [in Cuba]. . . . Perry’s most
important contribution lies in how he unites the genealogy of Cuban
hip-hop with that of the contemporary Cuban anti-racist movement
and points sharply toward the political urgency of continued
antiracist critiques in the present and future."
*Latin American Music Review*
"Negro Soy Yo provides an insightful and grassroots account of the
Cuban hip hop movement’s discursive and affirmative evolution in an
emerging neoliberal moment."
*Journal of Anthropological Research*
"Perry effectively cuts between lyrics, house parties, run-ins with
the police, music festivals, conversations, and theoretical
reflections in a multilayered 'raced ethnography' that glistens
with his desire to describe an enormous range of details about life
in neoliberal Cuba. . . . He contributes wonderfully to Latin
American and Caribbean studies, as well as African diaspora
studies, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, and
ethnomusicology."
*Latin American Research Review*
“Perry’s study is an insightful and nuanced analysis of the Cuban
hip-hop movement and an original take on the issue of race and
youth culture in transitional post-Soviet Cuban society.”
*International Journal of Cuban Studies*
"For those not familiar with Afro-Cuban life, the book is an
excellent introduction to such, as it intersects the fields of
Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, and
Ethnomusicology. . . . The beauty of Perry’s text is that it is an
excellent book for those not on the island who do not know how the
music communicates things about Afro-Cuban society. To date readers
cannot get this aspect of Cuban hip hop anywhere else."
*The Latin Americanist*
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