Marc D. Perry, University of Texas at San Antonio, Estados Unidos:
In this presentation for the symposium Culturas Caribeñas del Hip Hop (La Habana 2020), Perry argues that Afro-Cuban youth adopted hip-hop as a way to respond to the contradictions between the utopian promise of racial egalitarianism articulated by revolutionary socialism and their experiences of racialization. Transcending the national limitations of Cuban identity discourses by mobilizing the African diaspora as a critical site for the creation of a multivocal black citizenship, participants in the Cuban hip-hop movement claimed agency in a process of a racial recuperation that situated their experiences and struggles in a broader context of black transnationalism.