
Cuba's Racial Crucible
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This prize-winning study examines the historical interplay of racial identity, nationality, and family formation in Cuba from the 18th century to today.
Since the 19th century, there have been two opposing perspectives on Cuban racial identity: one that frames Cubans as white, and one that sees them as racially mixed based on acceptance of African descent. For the past two centuries, these competing views of have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women and men make their own racially oriented decisions about choosing partners and family formation.
Cuba's Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics of Cuban race relations by highlighting the role race has played in 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 also 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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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Crucible of Race: Historicizing the Sexual Economy of Cuban Social Identities
- 1 Ascendant Capitalism and White Intellectual Re-Assessments of Afro-Cuban Social Value to 1820
- 2 Slavery and Afro-Cuban Family Formation during Cuba's Economic Awakening, 1763-1820
- 3 The Illegal Slave Trade and the Cuban Sexual Economy of Race, 1820-1867
- 4 Nineteenth-Century Racial Myths and the Familial Corruption of Cuban Whiteness
- 5 Afro-Cuban Family Emancipation, 1868-1886
- 6 "Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban Family, 1886-1940
- 7 Mestizaje Literary Visions and Afro-Cuban Genealogical Memory, 1920-1958
- Epilogue: Revolutionary Social Morality and the Multi-Racial National Family, 1959-2000
- Notes
- References
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