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Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898
Ada Ferrer
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paperback. An examination of the tensions between racism and antiracism in Cuba's struggle to become a nation. It explores the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when the revolution began, until the intervention of American forces in 1898. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13 illustrations, 2 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JH; HBJQ; HBTB; HBTV; JFFJ; JFSL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University North Carolina Pr United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807847831
SKU
V9780807847831
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About Ada Ferrer
Ada Ferrer teaches Latin American and Caribbean history at New York University.
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