Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba /
"In the first book to focus on the activism of Black women during Cuba's prerevolutionary period, Takkara Brunson discusses how these women battled exclusion on multiple fronts but played an important role in forging a modern democracy"
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville
University of Florida Press
2021
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Edición: | 1. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "In the first book to focus on the activism of Black women during Cuba's prerevolutionary period, Takkara Brunson discusses how these women battled exclusion on multiple fronts but played an important role in forging a modern democracy" Introduction: Enacting Citizenship between Abolition and the 1959 Revolution -- "Look for Progress in Our Moral Perfection": Racial Regeneration and the Post-Zanj℗On Black Public Sphere -- Writing Black Political Networks during the Early Republic -- Leadership of Recognized Character: Comportment and the Politics of Elite Black Social Life -- Feminism and the Transformation of Black Women?s Social Thought -- Racial Politics in the National Women?s Movement -- The Limits of Democratic Citizenship in the New Constitutional Era -- "A Heroic and Revolutionary Undertaking": African-Descended Women and the Communist Movement. |
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Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (278 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781683402428 |