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

"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 racia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Morrison, Karen Y. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.