Unbecoming Blackness2014 Runner Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio Lpez uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. Lpez shows how Afro Cuban writers and performers in the U. S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often