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

Informationen zum Autor Karen Y. Morrison Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: A Crucible of Race: Historicizing the Sexual Economy of Cuban Social Identities Acknowledgments 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 Index

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• Authors: Karen Y Morrison, Karen Y. Morrison, Morrison Karen y
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.05.2015
• EAN: 9780253016546
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01654-6
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb; Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories