The Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (10.14.21)
Join us on Thursday, October 14 at 5 PM for The Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life, a book presentation by Sujatha Fernandes. Moderated by Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music and Chair, Musicology & Ethnomusicology, College of Fine Arts.
Fernandes is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney. She taught at the City University of New York for a decade and holds a visiting position at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her academic, activist, and literary work explores social and labor movements, participatory media and art, global Black cultures, and migrant workers, with a focus on the Americas. Her writings are concerned with the stories of those erased by history, multi-racial working class encounter and solidarities, socialism, neoliberalism and colonial presence.
In The Cuban Hustle, Sujatha Fernandes explores the multitudinous ways artists, activists, and ordinary Cubans have hustled to survive and express themselves in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Whether circulating information on flash drives as a substitute for the internet or building homemade antennas to listen to Miami’s hip hop radio stations, Cubans improvise alternative strategies and workarounds to contend with ongoing isolation. Throughout these essays, Fernandes examines the emergence of dynamic youth cultures and social movements as Cuba grappled with economic collapse, new digital technologies, the normalization of diplomatic ties with the United States during the Obama administration, and the regression of US-Cuban relations in the Trump era. From reflections on feminism, new Cuban cinema, and public art to urban barrios, the Afro-Cuban movement, and rumba and hip hop, Fernandes reveals Cuba to be a world of vibrant cultures grounded in an ethos of invention and everyday hustle.
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When: October 14, 2021 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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