In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement. Ada Ferrer examines the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when a slaveholder began the revolution by freeing his slaves, until the intervention of racially segregated American forces in 1898. In so doing, she uncovers the struggles over the boundaries of citizenship and nationality that their participation brought to the fore, and she shows that even as black participation helped sustain the movement ideologically and militarily, it simultaneously prompted accusations of race war and fed the forces of counterinsurgency. Carefully examining the tensions between racism and antiracism contained within Cuban nationalism, Ferrer paints a dynamic portrait of a movement built upon the coexistence of an ideology of racial fraternity and the persistence of presumptions of hierarchy. |Examines the tensions between racism and anti-racism in Cuba's struggle to become a nation between 1868 and 1898.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13
9780807847831
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96787995
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Economic Sociology
Author
Ada Ferrer
Publication Name
Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences, Government, History
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ada Ferrer
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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