Measures of equality [[electronic resource] ] : social science, citizenship, and race in Cuba, 1902-1940 / / Alejandra Bronfman

• Autore: Bronfman Alejandra <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/0097291
• Soggetto topico: Equality - Cuba - History - 20th century; Social justice - Cuba - History - 20th century; Social sciences - Cuba - History - 20th century; Social scientists - Cuba - Attitudes; Sociological jurisprudence
• Soggetto geografico: Cuba Race relations; Cuba Politics and government 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-228) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Unsettled and nomadic : law, anthropology, and race -- Social science and the negro brujo -- Barbarism and its discontents -- Contested histories : public memory and collective identities -- Social science, state-making, and the politics of time -- The politics of blackness on the eve of revolution -- From comparsas to constitutions.
• Sommario/riassunto: After Cuba's independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity. But racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship. Alejandra Bronfman traces the formation of Cuba's multiracial legal and political order in the early Republic.
• Titolo autorizzato: Measures of equality
• ISBN: 979-88-908773-9-0; 0-8078-7624-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777685203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Envisioning Cuba.