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Cuba's Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000

Cuba's Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000

Morrison, Karen Y.

Paperback

Series: Blacks in the Diaspora

Caribbean HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0253016541
ISBN13: 9780253016546
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: May 26 2015
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Since 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.

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