Rescuing Our Roots : The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba /

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Andrea Queeley examines the interconnections between blackness, inequality, migration, and Diaspora in the wake of the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on Cuba. Rescuing Our Roots shows, via ethnography, how black Anglophone Caribbean people's desire for social mobility, political en...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Queeley, Andrea (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Diplomatic relations.
Black people > Social conditions.
Black people.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Black people > Cuba > History.
Black people > Cuba > Social conditions.
Soviet Union.
Cuba.
Cuba > Relations exterieures > URSS.
URSS > Relations exterieures > Cuba.
Cuba > Relations raciales.
Cuba > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Cuba.
Cuba > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Nested diasporas, multiple mobilities, and the politics of black belonging
  • British West Indian migration to Cuba: the roots and routes of respectability
  • Get out or get involved: revolutionary change and conflicting visions of freedom
  • Special identities in Cuba's special period: race, region, and revitalization
  • "Somos negros finos" (we are refined blacks): rescuing roots as an assertion of respectable blackness
  • "Gracias a la revolución?": narratives of social mobility as spaces of subject formation
  • Conclusion: Dreams multiplied ... a final entre to Cuba.

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