LEADER 04090nam 22005895 450 001 9910151635203321 005 20230810001327.0 010 $a0-8147-6113-5 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814761137 035 $a(CKB)3710000000951587 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4500643 035 $a(OCoLC)964569223 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53967 035 $a(DE-B1597)547448 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814761137 035 $a(OCoLC)964410086 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000951587 100 $a20200608h20172017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSuspect Freedoms $eThe Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 /$fNancy Raquel Mirabal 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cNew York University Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 225 0 $aCulture, Labor, History ;$v3 300 $a"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. 311 $a0-8147-6111-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Rhetorical Geographies -- $t2. ?With Painful Interest? -- $t3. In Darkest Anonymity -- $t4. Orphan Politics -- $t5. Monumental Desires and Defiant Tributes -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aBeginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept of Cubanidad, a shared sense of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of slavery, freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the question of what and who constituted ?being Cuban? remained in flux and often, suspect. The first book to explore Cuban racial and sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Suspect Freedoms chronicles the largely unexamined and often forgotten history of more than a hundred years of Cuban exile, migration, diaspora, and community formation. Nancy Raquel Mirabal delves into the rich cache of primary sources, archival documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs, and oral histories to write what Michel Rolph Trouillot has termed an ?unthinkable history.? Situating this pivotal era within larger theoretical discussions of potential, future, visibility, and belonging, Mirabal shows how these transformations complicated meanings of territoriality, gender, race, power, and labor. She argues that slavery, nation, and the fear that Cuba would become ?another Haiti? were critical in the making of early diasporic Cubanidades, and documents how, by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Afro-Cubans were authors of their own experiences; organizing movements, publishing texts, and establishing important political, revolutionary, and social clubs. Meticulously documented and deftly crafted, Suspect Freedoms unravels a nuanced and vital history. 410 0$aCulture, labor, history. 606 $aCubans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCubans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aImmigrants$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory 606 $aExiles$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory 606 $aCubans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xEthnic identity$xHistory 615 0$aCubans$xHistory 615 0$aCubans$xHistory 615 0$aImmigrants$xHistory. 615 0$aExiles$xHistory. 615 0$aCubans$xEthnic identity$xHistory. 676 $a305.8009747 700 $aMirabal$b Nancy Raquel, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01378860 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151635203321 996 $aSuspect Freedoms$93417914 997 $aUNINA