Karen Y. Morrison

Cuba's Racial Crucible

The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000

Buch

Since the 19th century, assertions of a common racially mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of the Cuban 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 dem… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-01654-6
EAN: 9780253016546
Produktnummer: 17085846
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 372 S.
Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.1 cm 556 g
Abbildungen: 1 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white; 16 Tables, black and white
Gewicht: 556
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Karen Y. Morrison is Assistant Professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a social historian of the African diaspora.