Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory by James L. Conyers Jr. Christel N. Temple

Author:James L. Conyers, Jr., Christel N. Temple [James L. Conyers, Jr., Christel N. Temple]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781785277191
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Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2022-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

This essay intended to offer an initial glimpse into the meanings of Ali for Cuba and Cuba for Ali. Both are worthy of further study in context of the wider African American civil rights movement, Black internationalism, and Third World nationalism during the Cold War. For many in Cuba and among the Cuban diaspora in the United States, however, the roots of Ali’s greatness were sometimes contradictory but nevertheless authentic, the response to what he saw as injustice at home and abroad. From his relationships with Afro-Cuban boxers in their South Beach gym to the “fight that never was” and his humanitarian visits to Cuba, Ali did more than embody the six core values discussed above. He found ways to connect with ordinary Cubans at home and in diaspora that, if not exactly healing the divide between the United States and Cuba, at least offered a much needed respite from it.

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