Ivenceremos? - The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba

Informationen zum Autor Jafari S. Allen is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at Yale University. Klappentext An ethnography of sexual identity formation in contemporary Cuba. Zusammenfassung A groundbreaking ethnography on race! desire! and belonging among black Cubans in the early twenty-first-century Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Invoking "A larger freedom" 1 1. Looking (at) "Afro-Cuba(n)" 19 2. Discursive Sleight of Hand: Race, Sex, Gender 41 3. The Erotics and Politics of Self-making 74 4. De Cierta Manera . . . Hasta Cierto Punto (One Way or Another . . . Up to a Certain Point) 100 5. Friendship as a Mode of Survival 129 6.  Hagamos un Chen! (We Make Change!) 157 Coda:  Vamos a Vencer! (We Will Win!) 186 Notes 195 References 211 Index 233

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jafari Allen, Jafari S. Allen, Jafari Sinclaire Allen
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 12.08.2011
• EAN: 9780822349327
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4932-7
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche