A Cuban City, Segregated : Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century /

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"Founded as a white colony in 1819, Cienfuegos, Cuba, quickly became home to people of African descent, both free and enslaved, and later a small community of Chinese and other immigrants. Despite the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity that defined the city's population, the urban land...

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Main Author: Lucero, Bonnie A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urbanization.
Social conditions.
Segregation.
Race relations.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Segregation > Cuba > Cienfuegos (Province) > History > 19th century.
Urbanization > Cuba > Cienfuegos (Province) > History > 19th century.
Cuba > Cienfuegos (Province)
Cienfuegos (Cuba : Province) > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Cienfuegos (Cuba : Province) > Relations raciales > 19e siecle.
Cienfuegos (Cuba : Province) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Cienfuegos (Cuba : Province) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Cienfuegos (Cuba : Province) > Race relations > 19th century.
Cienfuegos (Cuba : Province) > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: urban order and racial exclusion
  • A white colony in the age of "Africanization," 1790s-1830s
  • A town of racial enclaves, 1840s-1860s
  • Freedom and marginality in a divided city, 1860s-1890s
  • Negotiating exclusion in the historic city center, 1890s
  • Consolidating a white city center under US rule
  • Conclusion: reclaiming urban space in the early republic.

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