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OverviewSince the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women and men make their own racially oriented choices in family formation. Cuba's Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics of Cuban race relations by highlighting the racially selective reproductive practices and genealogical memories associated with family formation. Karen Y. Morrison reads archival, oral-history, and literary sources to demonstrate the ideological centrality and inseparability of ""race,"" ""nation,"" and ""family,"" in definitions of Cuban identity. Morrison analyzes the conditions that supported the social advance and decline of notions of white racial superiority, nationalist projections of racial hybridity, and pride in African descent. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Karen Y. MorrisonPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.576kg ISBN: 9780253016546ISBN 10: 0253016541 Pages: 372 Publication Date: 26 May 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Preface: A Crucible of Race: Historicizing the Sexual Economy of Cuban Social Identities Acknowledgments 1. Ascendant Capitalism and White Intellectual Re-Assessments of Afro-Cuban Social Value to 1820 2. Slavery and Afro-Cuban Family Formation during Cuba's Economic Awakening, 1763–1820 3. The Illegal Slave Trade and the Cuban Sexual Economy of Race, 1820–1867 4. Nineteenth-Century Racial Myths and the Familial Corruption of Cuban Whiteness 5. Afro-Cuban Family Emancipation, 1868–1886 6. ""Regenerating"" the Afro-Cuban Family, 1886–1940 7. Mestizaje Literary Visions and Afro-Cuban Genealogical Memory, 1920–1958 Epilogue: Revolutionary Social Morality and the Multi-Racial National Family, 1959–2000 Notes References Index"ReviewsExamining the historical process of family formation among Afro-Cubans as an entry point into an exploration of the sexual economy of race, Karen Morrison argues that to achieve a more complete understanding of the tensions, shifts, and turns in the public discourses of race in Cuba, we first need to trace the material human relations upon which those discourses and subsequent socio-cultural and political practices are built. The constitution of these intimate worlds is both a primary process as well as a main site for the production of racial meaning.... Her analysis shows that various peoples from all over the Cuban social landscape transgressed racialized boundaries in their desire to recognize and legitimize their family formations, challenged the racialized hierarchies, [and by doing so] transformed the actual meanings of the categories of race. Ileana M. Rodriquez-Silva, University of Washington Author InformationKaren Y. Morrison is Assistant Professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a social historian of the African diaspora. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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