Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and HistoryVisitors to Cuba will notice that Afro Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santera saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the animation of Cubas colonial past and African heritage through such figures and performances not only reflects but also shapes the Cuban experience of Blackness. She also