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Ivenceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba

Ivenceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba

Allen, Jafari Sinclaire

Paperback

Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0822349507
ISBN13: 9780822349501
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 12 2011
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Promoting the revolutionary socialist project of equality and dignity for all, the slogan Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears throughout Cuba, everywhere from newspapers to school murals to nightclubs. Yet the accomplishments of the Cuban state are belied by the marginalization of blacks, the prejudice against sexual minorities, and gender inequities. Venceremos? is a groundbreaking ethnography on race, desire, and belonging among blacks in early-twenty-first-century Cuba, as the nation opens its economy to global capital. Expanding on Audre Lorde's vision of embodied, even useful, desire, Jafari S. Allen shows how black Cubans engage in acts of erotic self-making, reinterpreting, transgressing, and potentially transforming racialized and sexualized interpellations of their identities. He illuminates intimate spaces of autonomy created by people whose multiply subaltern identities have rendered them illegible to state functionaries, and to most scholars. In everyday practices in Havana and Santiago de Cuba--including Santeria rituals, gay men's parties, hip hop concerts, the tourist-oriented sex trade, lesbian organizing, HIV education, and just hanging out--Allen highlights small but significant acts of struggle for autonomy and dignity.

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