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Cuba's Racial Crucible The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000

Morrison Karen Y.
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780253016546
Publisert
2015-05-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Vekt
576 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
372

Forfatter
Morrison Karen Y.

Om bidragsyterne

Karen Y. Morrison is Assistant Professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a social historian of the African diaspora.

Cuba's Racial Crucible The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000

Morrison Karen Y.
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk
Morrison Karen Y.
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk
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<p>Morrison's book opens up several new avenues for research on sexuality and family formation in Cuba, and she does so with a masterful grasp on colonial sources and raises critical questions for the twentieth century. While most scholars accept the primacy of race and sexuality in Cuban history, Morrison succeeds at excavating these questions on a micro-level, providing new insights into the choices and family formations forged by both enslaved and free Cubans over time.<br /></p>

Cuban Studies

<p>This thought-provoking book will appeal to specialists and should be quite useful in graduate seminars dealing with race, nation, and Latin American history.</p>

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

<p>What is most striking about Cuba's Racial Crucible is the manner in which it records why enslaved individuals labored to document paternity, maternity, and racial ascendency for social mobility, love, and individual stability. Those social actors are the highlight of Morrison's research.</p>

American Quarterly

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<p>This rigorous yet accessible monograph covers an extensive period of Cuban history from a unique and innovative intersectional perspective. For these reasons, it would make an excellent addition to undergraduate collections in African and African American studies, Latin American studies, women's and gender studies, and history. . . . Highly recommended.</p>

Choice

Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women and men make their own racially oriented choices in family formation. Cuba's Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics of Cuban race relations 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 Cuban identity. 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.
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Preface: A Crucible of Race: Historicizing the Sexual Economy of Cuban Social IdentitiesAcknowledgments1. Ascendant Capitalism and White Intellectual Re-Assessments of  Afro-Cuban Social Value to 18202. Slavery and Afro-Cuban Family Formation during Cuba's Economic Awakening, 1763–18203. The Illegal Slave Trade and the Cuban Sexual Economy of Race, 1820–18674. Nineteenth-Century Racial Myths and the Familial Corruption of Cuban Whiteness5. Afro-Cuban Family Emancipation, 1868–18866. "Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban Family, 1886–19407. Mestizaje Literary Visions and Afro-Cuban Genealogical Memory, 1920–1958Epilogue: Revolutionary Social Morality and the Multi-Racial National  Family, 1959–2000NotesReferencesIndex
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One of only a few works on Cuban history that critically examines the intersection of gender, race, and nation . . . [and] offers a unique perspective considering changes in race making and family formation over the long term.
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Winner, NECLAS Marissa Navarro Best Book Prize

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<p>Morrison's book opens up several new avenues for research on sexuality and family formation in Cuba, and she does so with a masterful grasp on colonial sources and raises critical questions for the twentieth century. While most scholars accept the primacy of race and sexuality in Cuban history, Morrison succeeds at excavating these questions on a micro-level, providing new insights into the choices and family formations forged by both enslaved and free Cubans over time.<br /></p>

Cuban Studies

<p>This thought-provoking book will appeal to specialists and should be quite useful in graduate seminars dealing with race, nation, and Latin American history.</p>

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

<p>What is most striking about Cuba's Racial Crucible is the manner in which it records why enslaved individuals labored to document paternity, maternity, and racial ascendency for social mobility, love, and individual stability. Those social actors are the highlight of Morrison's research.</p>

American Quarterly

Se alle

<p>This rigorous yet accessible monograph covers an extensive period of Cuban history from a unique and innovative intersectional perspective. For these reasons, it would make an excellent addition to undergraduate collections in African and African American studies, Latin American studies, women's and gender studies, and history. . . . Highly recommended.</p>

Choice

Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women and men make their own racially oriented choices in family formation. Cuba's Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics of Cuban race relations 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 Cuban identity. 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.
Les mer
Preface: A Crucible of Race: Historicizing the Sexual Economy of Cuban Social IdentitiesAcknowledgments1. Ascendant Capitalism and White Intellectual Re-Assessments of  Afro-Cuban Social Value to 18202. Slavery and Afro-Cuban Family Formation during Cuba's Economic Awakening, 1763–18203. The Illegal Slave Trade and the Cuban Sexual Economy of Race, 1820–18674. Nineteenth-Century Racial Myths and the Familial Corruption of Cuban Whiteness5. Afro-Cuban Family Emancipation, 1868–18866. "Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban Family, 1886–19407. Mestizaje Literary Visions and Afro-Cuban Genealogical Memory, 1920–1958Epilogue: Revolutionary Social Morality and the Multi-Racial National  Family, 1959–2000NotesReferencesIndex
Les mer
One of only a few works on Cuban history that critically examines the intersection of gender, race, and nation . . . [and] offers a unique perspective considering changes in race making and family formation over the long term.
Les mer
Winner, NECLAS Marissa Navarro Best Book Prize

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780253016546
Publisert
2015-05-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Vekt
576 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
372

Forfatter
Morrison Karen Y.

Om bidragsyterne

Karen Y. Morrison is Assistant Professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a social historian of the African diaspora.

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