Hierarchies At Home - Domestic Service in Cuba From Abolition to Revolution

"Hierarchies at Home traces the experiences of Cuban domestic workers from the abolition of slavery through the 1959 revolution. Domestic service - childcare, cleaning, chauffeuring for private homes - was both ubiquitous and ignored as formal labor in Cuba, a phenomenon made possible because of who supposedly performed it. In Cuban imaginary, domestic workers were almost always Black women and their supposed prevalence in domestic service perpetuated the myth of racial harmony. African-descended domestic workers were "like one of the family," just as enslaved Cubans had supposedly been part of the families who owned them before slavery's abolition. This fascinating work challenges this myth, revealing how domestic workers consistently rejected their invisibility throughout the twentieth century. By following a group marginalized by racialized and gendered assumptions, Anasa Hicks destabilizes traditional analyses in Cuban history, instead offering a continuous narrative that connects pre- and post-revolutionary Cuba"--

About the author

Anasa Hicks is Assistant Professor of History at Florida State University. She specializes in Latin American and Caribbean history, focusing on twentieth-century Cuba, the Hispanic Caribbean, women and gender, and labor studies.

Product details

• Authors: Anasa Hicks, Anasa (Florida State University) Hicks
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781009074513
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0907451-3
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Afro-Latin America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Latin America, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery