This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race
on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro …

In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that
negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress and activism through the …

El de la mujer es mucho más fuerte y más difícil de poder combatir. No siempre se le exige
al hombre el ser bello.... Entonces, la mujer por ejemplo, arrastra todo ese sentido de la …

Drawing largely on the work of Maya Angelou, we use decolonial collaborative
autoethnography to explore why the caged bird sings in the academy. We offer a caged bird …

Culture and the Cuban State examines the politics of culture in communist Cuba. It focuses
on cultural policy, censorship, and the political participation of artists, writers and academics …

Responding to Max Weber's dour predictions, we enlist Antonio Gramsci's optimism to
suggest how culture can spike development. Weber's sociological focus took culture to …

This dissertation examines the role an arts-based educational program played in unleashing
youth's creativity as they confront various structures of power that become challenges to …

Abstract Colectiva Feminista en Construcción (La Cole) is a Black feminist political
organization that emerged in 2014 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This article discusses the ways …

Hip hop is part of a global economy of music, images and signs. Since the 1990s, hip hop
has become an increasingly mainstream part of the African musical landscape. In Tanzania …

As scholars on culture have suggested elsewhere, cooption through consumption by the
music culture industry has forced those who want to be part of the hip-hop subculture to go …