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Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality : Gendering War and Politics in Cuba /

"One of the most paradoxical aspects of Cuban history is the coexistence of national myths of racial harmony with lived experiences of racial inequality. Here a historian addresses this issue by examining the ways soldiers and politicians coded their discussions of race in ideas of masculinity...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lucero, Bonnie A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gendered language amid racial silence in Cuba
  • "To acquire the dictate of free men" : decolonizing masculinity through military service
  • Forging patriarch-soldiers : womanhood and white patriarchy in the construction of insurgent manhood
  • "Mambí or Majá" : measures of merit and double standards of military authority
  • "To manage with virility our own affairs" : defining the new man between military intervention and occupation
  • Testing the racial limits of martial manhood : Black political exclusion and patriarchal claims-making
  • Agents of order or disorder? : Black veterans, urban law enforcement, and the racial politics of violence
  • Not simply "because one happens to belong to the male species" : race, rural law enforcement, and political disorder amid restricted suffrage
  • "The Colored patriot and his box of matches" : Black criminality, white radicalism, and the redefinition of the new man in an era of universal manhood suffrage
  • The racial limits of revolutionary masculinity.