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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460295003321

Autore

Morrison Karen Y.

Titolo

Cuba's racial crucible : the sexual economy of social identities, 1750-2000 / / Karen Y. Morrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Pres, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-253-01660-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Collana

Blacks in the Diaspora

Disciplina

305.80097291

Soggetti

Black people - Race identity - Cuba - History

White people - Race identity - Cuba - History

Racially mixed people - Race identity - Cuba - History

Human reproduction - Social aspects - Cuba - History

Human reproduction - Economic aspects - Cuba - History

Genealogy - Social aspects - Cuba - History

Families - Cuba - History

Nationalism - Social aspects - Cuba - History

Electronic books.

Cuba Race relations History

Cuba Race relations Economic aspects History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: A crucible of race : historicizing the sexual economy of Cuban social identities -- Ascendant capitalism and white intellectual re-assessments of Afro-Cuban social value to 1820 -- Slavery and Afro-Cuban family formation during Cuba's economic awakening, 1763-1820 -- The illegal slave trade and the Cuban sexual economy of race, 1820-1867 -- Nineteenth-century racial myths and the familial corruption of whiteness -- Afro-Cuban family emancipation, 1868-1886 -- "Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban family, 1886-1940 -- Mestizaje literary visions and Afro-Cuban genealogical memory, 1920-1958 -- Epilogue: Revolutionary social morality and the multi-racial



national family, 1959-2000.

Sommario/riassunto

"For the past two centuries, competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, with whiteness, blackness, and race mixture variably upheld as ideals. Cuba's Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics behind Cuban racial identities 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 Cubanidad. 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 that influenced, but also were shaped by, Cuban men and women's every day, racially-oriented choices in creating families"--Provided by publisher.