Presented by Dr. Devyn Spence Benson and Dr. Danielle Clealand
Event Description: “This presentation explores the largest living archive of Black Cuban oral histories, based on 95 interviews with Black Cubans in the United States. Drawing from their forthcoming book, Alternate Black Worlds: Black Cuban Migration During Jim Crow and Beyond, Benson and Clealand discuss how oral history methodology can illuminate negotiations of race, migration, and belonging in 1960s and 1970s Miami. Their work challenges the invisibility of race—especially Blackness—in Cuban, Cuban American, and Latino/a Studies, and shows how racializing Cuban migration stories and data transforms understanding of the first waves of Cuban exiles.”
Affiliated Institutions:
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Rutgers–New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies
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Rutgers–New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Rutgers University Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
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Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies