344 p., Explores continuities and transformations in the construction of Afro-Cuban womanhood in Cuba between 1902 and 1958. A dynamic and evolving process, the construction of Afro-Cuban womanhood encompassed the formal and informal practices that multiple individuals--from lawmakers and professionals to intellectuals and activists to workers and their families--established and challenged through public debates and personal interactions in order to negotiate evolving systems of power. The dissertation argues that Afro-Cuban women were integral to the formation of a modern Cuban identity. Studies of pre-revolutionary Cuba dichotomize race and gender in their analyses of citizenship and national identity formation. As such, they devote insufficient attention to the role of Afro-Cuban women in engendering social transformations.
Special Issue: CUBA., Describes Cuba's past and future as the only Marxist-Leninist socialist nation in the Western Hemisphere; cultural, political, and social perspectives. Topics include effects on Cuba of the demise of the Soviet empire
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Previously published as parts of volumes III, V, and VII of The Cambridge History of Latin America ... 1985, 1986, and 1990, 172 p, A concise history of this important island nation. Contributors, top scholars in the field, trace the political, economic, and social development of Cuba from the middle of the eighteenth century onwards. The concluding chapter, updated for this volume, considers the dilemmas and challenges that Castro's Cuba faces in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse.
Bergad,Laird W. (Author), Iglesias Garcia,Fe (Author), and Barcia,Maria del Carmen (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
New York: Cambridge University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
245 p, "Quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late 18th C. until 1880; core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the demographic characteristics of the slave market." (Amazon.com)
