ISBN:
0814761135
,
9780814761137
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Culture, labor, history series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mirabal, Nancy Raquel, 1966- Suspect freedoms
DDC:
305.8009747
Keywords:
Cubans History 20th century
;
Immigrants History
;
Exiles History
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Cubans Ethnic identity
;
History
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Blacks Race identity
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History
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Race Political aspects
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History
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Sex Political aspects
;
History
;
Cubans History 19th century
;
Blacks ; Race identity
;
Cubans
;
Cubans ; Ethnic identity
;
Ethnic relations
;
Exiles
;
Immigrants
;
Race ; Political aspects
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Race relations
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Sex ; Political aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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History
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New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations
;
History
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New York (N.Y.) Race relations
;
History
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New York (State) ; New York
Abstract:
"Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept of Cubanidad, a shared sense of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of slavery, freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the question of what and who constituted 'being Cuban' remained in flux and often, suspect. The first book to explore Cuban racial and sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Suspect Freedoms chronicles the largely unexamined and often forgotten history of more than a hundred years of Cuban exile, migration, diaspora, and community formation. Nancy Raquel Mirabal delves into the rich cache of primary sources, archival documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs, and oral histories to write what Michel Rolph Trouillot has termed an 'unthinkable history.' Situating this pivotal era within larger theoretical discussions of potential, future, visibility, and belonging, Mirabal shows how these transformations complicated meanings of territoriality, gender, race, power, and labor. She argues that slavery, nation, and the fear that Cuba would become 'another Haiti' were critical in the making of early diasporic Cubanidades, and documents how, by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Afro-Cubans were authors of their own experiences; organizing movements, publishing texts, and establishing important political, revolutionary, and social clubs. Meticulously documented and deftly crafted, Suspect Freedoms unravels a nuanced and vital history"--Publisher's website
Abstract:
Introduction: Diasporic histories and archival hauntings -- Rhetorical geographies : annexation, fear, and the impossibility of Cuban diasporic whiteness, 1840-1868 -- "With painful interest" : the Ten Years' War, masculinity, and the politics of revolutionary Blackness, 1865-1898 -- In darkest anonymity : labor, revolution, and the uneasy visibility of Afro-Cubans in New York, 1880-1901 -- Orphan politics : race, migration, and the trouble with "new" colonialisms, 1898-1945 -- Monumental desires and defiant tributes : Antonio Maceo and the early history of El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, 1945-1957 -- Epilogue.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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