Gloria Rolando

Andrea J. Queeley is Associate Professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University. She is the author of Rescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba. Devyn Spence Benson is Associate Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution and editor, with Daisy Rubiera Castillo and Inés María Martiatu Terry, of the English version of Afrocubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural Practices. Yesenia Fernández Selier was a performer, artist, and doctoral candidate working on a dissertation entitled "Representing and Performing Afro Latino: The Cultural Production of Race in the Spanish Caribbean, 1812–1950."

• Preface: Reflections from the EditorsPreface Coda: In Loving Memory of Our Dear Sister and Co-Editor, Yesenia Fernández SelierAcknowledgmentsGloria Rolando's FilmsIntroductionPart One: Conception1. The Cinematic Works of Cuban Filmmaker Gloria RolandoYasmani Castro Caballero2. Gloria in Me Alexey Rodríguez Mola3. Listening to What the Roots Have to Say: They Speak of Our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothersNorma Rita Guillard LimontaPart Two: Birth4. The Life and Work of Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando: Conversations with Magia López Cabrera and Catherine MurphyMagia López Cabrera and Catherine Murphy5. Africa, the Caribbean, and Afro-America in Cuban Film: An Interview with Gloria RolandoInterview by Jean Stubbs6. An Optimistic Vision: Reflections of Sound Engineer Juan DemostheneInterview by Andrea J. Queeley7. "Aquellas monjas negras que vinieron de Baltimore:" An Interview with Gloria Rolando on her Documentary, Hermanas del CorazónInterview by Amberly A. Ellis-RodríguezPart Three: Life8. Gloria Rolando's Archival ImaginarySusan Lord9. "Yuh Luk Lik Kin": Historical and Contemporary Identities Among Anglophone Afrodescendants in Hispanophone RegionsDash Harris10. Race, Remembrance, and the Revolutionary Visual Historian: Gloria Rolando's Breaking the SilenceGeoffroy de Laforcade11. Antidotes to Anti-Blackness: Emancipatory Re-membering and Rolando's 'Rescue Work'Andrea J. Queeley12. Space, Time, and the Role of Language to Communicate Memory in Gloria Rolando's WorkThalía Díaz Vieta13. Wombs and Maternal Essence in the Cinematic Poetics of Gloria RolandoMaydi Estrada Bayona14. Gloria Rolando: Bibliography and FilmographyGayle Ann WilliamsPart Four: Love: A Reflection15. Teaching the World: Gloria Rolando's Soft, Clear, Superhero VoiceColette Gaiter16. Ready for the Revolution? A Diasporic Sister's MemoirLisa Brock17. Gloria, Sara y Landrián: Black Gaze and Death in Cuban CinemaYesenia F. Selier

"This volume brings much deserved attention to Gloria Rolando's work and its contributions to Cuban and Afro-diasporic histories, dialogues on race and racism within Cuba, and knowledge of Afro-descendant experiences. Mirroring Rolando's approach to history and culture through family histories and memories, the critical analyses of her films are framed by rich biographical accounts, interviews, and personal reflections by close friends and colleagues. These other genres provide context for understanding both the significance of Rolando's films and the difficult conditions under which she has rescued voices and archival material to tell the stories of communities forgotten or marginalized by mainstream Cuban history. Like her films, Gloria Rolando leads the reader to view Cuba as part of a layered, interconnected African Diaspora in the Caribbean and beyond." — Andrea E. Morris, author of Migrant and Tourist Encounters: The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures"Gloria's work is about Gloria but was never only about Gloria. In centering her work, the volume also centers its key themes—memory, the Caribbean, Black women's history, race, gender, film, diaspora. A brilliant and important contribution to film studies, Latin American studies, African Diaspora studies, gender studies, and more." — Tanya L. Saunders, author of Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity