Afro-Cubanadj.n.

1893 Twenty-two Years' Work of Hampton Normal & Agric. Inst. (Hampton Inst.) Pref. p. iii [Southern] freedman..and..representatives of other races or nationalities—Afro-Cuban, Russian,..and Hawaiian.

1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop vi. 41 George Russell..penned an Afro-Cuban drums suite.

1989 Atlantic Apr. 88/2 In New Orleans several local rhythms were also blended in, most notably the rhythms of Afro-Cuban rhumba.

1995 P. Manuel in P. Manuel et al. Caribbean Currents ii. 19 My friends and I have been invited to attend a bembé—a sort of dance party connected to the Afro-Cuban religion santería.

2000 U.S. News & World Rep. 24 Apr. 70/3 She was swaying to the beat of an Afro-Cuban band.

1898 Piqua (Ohio) Daily Call 30 July Only 35 per cent of the population of the Gem of the Antilles are Afro-Cubans.

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xix. 252 Perhaps the most stable pattern..was established by Machito and his Afro-Cubans.

1986 L. A. Pérez Cuba under Platt Amendment (1991) vi. 150 The material conditions of Afro-Cubans seems to have actually deteriorated with independence.

2010 L. K. Best Afro-Latino vi. 72 The Cuban elite have historically avoid revealing the accomplishments of Afro-Cubans except for their achievements in stereotypical roles such as entertainment and sports.

1950 Caribbean Q. 2 iii. 17 Afro-Cubanism at least seems to have achieved the incorporation into literature of the spirit of the popular poetry of the Antilles.

1966 G. R. Coulthard Caribbean Lit. 109 A literary movement of the 1920s which continued throughout the thirties and was given the name Afro-Cubanism..in which Spanish and African influences are blended.

2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 July ii. 22/3 In 1996 he intended to bring two Malian guitarists to Cuba for sessions..as an experiment in Afro-Cubanism.