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Cuba's racial crucible the sexual economy of social identities, 1750-2000
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Cuba's racial crucible [electronic resource] : the sexual economy of social identities, 1750-2000 / Karen Y. Morrison.
ISBN
0253016606
9780253016607
9780253016461 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780253016546 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm.)
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Summary
"For the past two centuries, competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, with whiteness, blackness, and race mixture variably upheld as ideals. Cuba's Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics behind Cuban racial identities by highlighting the racially-selective reproductive practices and genealogical memories associated with family formation. Karen Y. Morrison reads archival, oral-history, and literary sources to demonstrate the ideological centrality and inseparability of race, nation, and family in definitions of Cubanidad. Morrison analyzes the conditions that supported the social advance and decline of notions of white racial superiority, nationalist projections of racial hybridity, and pride in African descent that influenced, but also were shaped by, Cuban men and women's every day, racially-oriented choices in creating families"--Provided by publisher.
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Global Cultural Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 15, 2015
Series
Blacks in the diaspora
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: A crucible of race : historicizing the sexual economy of Cuban social identities
Ascendant capitalism and white intellectual re-assessments of Afro-Cuban social value to 1820
Slavery and Afro-Cuban family formation during Cuba's economic awakening, 1763-1820
The illegal slave trade and the Cuban sexual economy of race, 1820-1867
Nineteenth-century racial myths and the familial corruption of whiteness
Afro-Cuban family emancipation, 1868-1886
"Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban family, 1886-1940
Mestizaje literary visions and Afro-Cuban genealogical memory, 1920-1958
Epilogue: Revolutionary social morality and the multi-racial national family, 1959-2000.
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