batting champion Luis Ortiz — professional heavyweight boxer and former WBA Heavyweight Champion Brayan Peña — MLB Tony Pérez — MLB Hall of Fame Anthony Echemendia — amateur wrestler Juan Pizarro — MLB Yasiel Puig — MLB Ana Fidelia Quirot — athlete Alexei Ramírez — MLB Sugar Ramos — boxer; former WBA Featherweight Champion Alexis Rubalcaba — amateur boxer Félix Savón — amateur boxer Javier Sotomayor — world record holder in high jump Teófilo Stevenson — amateur boxer Luis Tiant — MLB Regla Torres — volleyball player Cristóbal Torriente — Negro leagues, Baseball Hall of Fame Jorge Orta — MLB Odisnel Cooper Yordany Álvarez Alexis Copello Pedro Pichardo Havana Solaun Julio César La Cruz See also Afro-Latin Americans – Latin America Black Latino Americans – the United States Cabildo (Cuba) Emancipados Haitian Cuban MPLA Angolan Civil War Afro-Cuban jazz Footnotes Further reading Arnedo-Gómez, Miguel. "Introduction", Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2006: 1-170. Duno-Gottberg, Luis, . Madrid, Iberoamericana – Frankfurt am Main, Vervuert, 2003. Finch, Aisha and Fannie Rushing (eds.), Breaing the Chains Forging the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. García, Cristina. "Introduction", Cubanismo! New York: Vintage Books, 2002: 1-364. "Literature of the Recolutionary Era", Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, history, culture. Ed. Luis Martinez Ternandez 1st Vol. Wesport: Greenwood Press, 2003: 345-346. Henken, Ted. "Cuban Literature-The Avant-Garde vs the Vanguard: Colonial Literature," Cuba: A Global Studies Handbook Global Studies :Latin America & The Caribbean. Santa Barbara: ABC_CLIO, 2008: 363-385. Moore, Robin D. "The Minorista vanguard: Moderism and Afrocubanismo" Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubansimo and artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940.Pittsburg: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997: 195-200. Ródriguez-Mangual, Edna M. "Introduction" Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro Cuban Cultural Identity. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004: 1-167. "Afrocubanismo", Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. Ed. Lenard S. Klein. 2nd ed. 4thvol. Continuum: Continuum Publishing Company, 1989: 20-21. Cuban Society of Cuba Ethnic groups in Cuba Cuban Cuban entertainers