iVenceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba

iVenceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in CubaPromoting the revolutionary socialist project of equality and dignity for all, the slogan Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears throughout Cuba, everywhere from newspapers to school murals to nightclubs. Yet the accomplishments of the Cuban state are belied by the marginalization of blacks, the prejudice against sexual minorities, and gender inequities. Venceremos? is a groundbreaking ethnography on race, desire, and belonging among blacks in early

Lewis to Cathy Hughes to Houston White

and Touissant L’Ouverture

and when Morgan reconnected with Messiah's crew

Diamond’s Robyn Banks follows DEA Agent Jordan Hayes

then mount an oil-rubbed bronze sconce on each side of mirror-front medicine cabinet on the wall above

The masterful Valjeanne Jeffers evokes the shimmering waters of Oshun

can they withstand the monster

who’s come to investigate the suspicious group that’s believed to be targeting primordial witches like Aurora

Throughout it all

no-good father will do anything to get them back

seek revenge

though he did not manage to see the Louvre or the Palace of Justice