Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity

by Tanya L. Saunders

In the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a key state ideology developed: racism was a systemic cultural issue that ceased to exist after the Revolution, and any racism that did persist was a result of contained cases of individual prejudice perpetuated by US influence. Even after the state officially pronounced the end of racism within its borders, social inequalities tied to racism, sexism, and homophobia endured, and, during the economic liberalization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477302379
• ISBN13: 9781477302378
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"