ISBN:
9780807849224
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (466 p)
Series Statement:
Envisioning Cuba Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Nation for All
DDC:
305.8/0097291
Keywords:
Cuba ; Politics and government ; 20th century
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Cuba ; Race relations
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Equality ; Cuba ; History ; 20th century
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Race discrimination ; Cuba ; History ; 20th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and inclusive country--a nation for all, as Jose Marti described it. But did the Cuban republic, and later the Cuban revolution, live up to these expectations?Tracing the formation and reformulation of nationalist ideologies, government policies, and different forms of social
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: The First Republic, 1902-1933; 1 Racial Order or Racial Democracy?: Race and the Contending Notions of Cubanidad; 2 Electoral Politics; PART II: Inequality, 1900-1950s; 3 The Labor Market; 4 Education and Mobility; PART III: The Second Republic, 1933-1958; 5 A New Cuba?; 6 State and Racial Equality; PART IV: Socialism, 1959-1990s; 7 Building a Nation for All; 8 The Special Period; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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