... denigrated cultural forms, in both Cuba and the United States, such as the blues, spirituals, rumba, and the son, to create a new diasporic cultural aesthetic. The chapter interprets the immense traffic between these cultural movements as evidence of diasporization, rather than as mere...

...This chapter underscores the importance of black tourism in the process of diasporization from the early 1930s until the dawn of the Cuban Revolution and the civil rights movement in the 1950s. It observes that black travellers with some means began to view themselves as “tourists” eager to visit...