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Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ada FerrerPublish date:1999-10-25Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807847831ISBN-10:807847836UPC:9780807847831Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Caribbean & West Indies, Ethnic Studies, DiscriminationSize:9.26 x 6.12 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SC4SAFY3VG
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement.

Ada Ferrer examines the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when a slaveholder began the revolution by freeing his slaves, until the intervention of racially segregated American forces in 1898. In so doing, she uncovers the struggles over the boundaries of citizenship and nationality that their participation brought to the fore, and she shows that even as black participation helped sustain the movement ideologically and militarily, it simultaneously prompted accusations of race war and fed the forces of counterinsurgency.

Carefully examining the tensions between racism and antiracism contained within Cuban nationalism, Ferrer paints a dynamic portrait of a movement built upon the coexistence of an ideology of racial fraternity and the persistence of presumptions of hierarchy.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807847831ISBN-10:807847836UPC:9780807847831Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Caribbean & West Indies, Ethnic Studies, DiscriminationSize:9.26 x 6.12 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SC4SAFY3VG
Ferrer, Ada: - Ada Ferrer teaches Latin American and Caribbean history at New York University.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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