
Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality
Gendering War and Politics in Cuba
Bonnie A. Lucero(Author)
University of New Mexico Press
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-0-8263-6333-6 (ISBN)
Description
One of the most paradoxical aspects of Cuban history is the coexistence of national myths of racial harmony with lived experiences of racial inequality. Here a historian addresses this issue by examining the ways soldiers and politicians coded their discussions of race in ideas of masculinity during Cuba's transition from colony to republic. Cuban insurgents, the author shows, rarely mentioned race outright. Instead, they often expressed their attitudes toward racial hierarchy through distinctly gendered language--revolutionary masculinity.
By examining the relationship between historical experiences of race and discourses of masculinity, Lucero advances understandings about how racial exclusion functioned in a supposedly raceless society. Revolutionary masculinity, she shows, outwardly reinforced the centrality of color blindness to Cuban ideals of manhood at the same time as it perpetuated exclusion of Cubans of African descent from positions of authority.
By examining the relationship between historical experiences of race and discourses of masculinity, Lucero advances understandings about how racial exclusion functioned in a supposedly raceless society. Revolutionary masculinity, she shows, outwardly reinforced the centrality of color blindness to Cuban ideals of manhood at the same time as it perpetuated exclusion of Cubans of African descent from positions of authority.
Reviews / Votes
Illustrates how the war for Cuban independence constructed Cuban masculinity ideals through the obstruction of truth about racism on the island." - Christopher M. White, author of A Global History of the Developing WorldMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
5 drawings, 7 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-6333-6 (9780826363336)
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E-Book
12/2021
Simon + Schuster LLC
€27.68
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Person
Bonnie A. Lucero is an associate professor of history and the director of the Center for Latino Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown. She is also a coeditor of Voices of Crime: Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America. She lives in Houston, Texas.