“Prof. Guridy discusses his prize-winning book, “Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow.”

Among other things, he discusses Langston Hughes’ and Marcus Garvey’s encounters with Afro-Cubans, the meeting of students at Booker T Washington’s Tuskegee Institute, and the differences between Cuban and Puerto Rican encounters with African Americans in the US.” (VIDEO below)