Fear of a Black Nation: Local Rappers, Transnational Crossings, and State Power in Contemporary Cuba

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 575-608

  Fernandes, Sujatha ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cuban rappers; Cultural resistance; Hip hop; Race; State power; Transnational networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344980609     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2003.0054     Document Type: Review

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