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Interview with Author Marc D. Perry 6/15/2016 Knowledge Unlatched: "Why did
you agree to allow your book to be included in the Knowledge Unlatched Round 2
Collection? Perry: As a scholar it is important to make my work as widely
circulated and accessible as possible both within and beyond the academy. As a
transnational ethnographer, one who writes about overseas communities and the
lives of people I know and with whom I share history, it is all the more
important that my work be accessible to these communities including local
scholars and intellectuals, bearing in mind the added language challenge given
my research’s Cuban locale."
Black Expressive Life Testified in an Era of Neoliberalism with Dr. Marc D.
Perry 2/19/2016 FIU: "In Negro Soy Yo, Marc D. Perry explores Cuba's hip
hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island's ongoing
transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering
on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the
ways these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial
citizenship, along with calls for racial justice, at the fraught confluence of
growing Afro-Cuban marginalization and long held perceptions of Cuba as a
non-racial nation. Situating hip hop within a long history of Cuban racial
politics, Perry discusses the artistic and cultural exchanges between raperos
and North American rappers and activists, and their relationships with older
Afro-Cuban intellectuals and African American political exiles."
Las barras y las estrellas aparecen por toda Cuba 4/24/2015 El
Financiero: "Muchos cubanos se emocionan con los potenciales beneficios
económicos y sociales que podrían traer las renovadas relaciones entre Estados
Unidos y Cuba”, dijo Marc D. Perry, un antropólogo en la Universidad de Tulane,
quien estudia las tendencias sociales cubanas. “Se trata del actual y popular
'zeitgeist’ de Cuba, por así decirlo, y estas expresiones culturales lo
reflejan”."
Who Dat?: Race and Its Conspicuous Consumption in Post-Katrina New Orleans 4/1/2015 AnthroSource: "This
article explores the fraught neoliberal refashioning of post-Katrina New Orleans
in relation to concurrent modes of racialized inclusion and exclusion. I suggest
an intensification of market forces during this period has hastened a
privileging of certain acceptable, often gendered forms of blackness tied to
their performance-centered market consumption while simultaneously rendering
others criminal and/or violently disposable. Such racial regulation, it is
argued, is tantamount to a kind of “contractual blackness” within New Orleans'
neoliberalized landscape that delineates commercially assimilable and therefore
“good” black subjects from deviantly “bad” and hence expendable ones. The
article follows with explorations of how some African American working class men
mediate these duel economies of consumption/disposability through varying
performative strategies of black possibility and alterity."
Hip Hop’s Diasporic Landscapes of Blackness 6/1/2009 Libya Diary: in From
Toussaint to Tupac, 2009 (PDF). By Marc D Perry. "Mapping such maneuvers
elucidates the social significance of hip hop not simply in terms of its
international circulation and consumption but, rather, through the ways it is
actively lived and politically employed as a site of racial mobilization and
self-formation. Among these black-identified youth, the space of
diasporathrough the performative lens of hip hopoperates as a key paradigm of
both identity and politics, and as such it has been instrumental in enabling
transnationally engaged strategies of black self-fashioning and action in
response to new, globally conditioned modes of racialization."
GLOBAL BLACK SELF-FASHIONINGS: HIP HOP AS DIASPORIC SPACE 11/17/2008 Taylor
Francis Online: "This essay examines how the “black” racial significance of hip
hop culture is received, interpreted, and redeployed within the Afro-Atlantic
world. Beyond questions of cultural consumption and reproduction, it is argued
that hip hop's expanding global reach has facilitated the contemporary making
and moving of black diasporic subjects themselves. Here, African descendant
youth in an array of locales use the performative contours of hip hop to
mobilize notions of black-self in ways that are at one time both contestive and
transcendent of nationally bound racial framings. Hip hop in this way can be
seen as enabling a current global (re)mapping of black political imaginaries via
social dynamics of diaspora. In pursuing this argument, this essay looks toward
hip hop movements in Brazil, Cuba, and South Africa as compelling, yet varying
examples of how transnationally attuned identities of blackness are marshaled in
the fashioning of diasporic subjects through hip hop."
Negro Soy Yo:
Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba (Refiguring American
Music),
2016, Duke University
Press
Downloadable PDF ebook, no charge
www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=604610
stonecenter.tulane.edu/articles/detail/461/Marc-D.-Perry
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