Isbn: 9780813061092 - rescuing our roots: the african anglo-caribbean diaspora in contemporary cuba (17 risultati)

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Original decorated boards. Condizione: New. First Edition. With illustrations. Light shelfwear.; Rescuing Our Roots offers an immersive ethnographic journey into the lives of Anglo-Caribbean descendants in Cuba during the transformative 1990s. Following the dismantling of their cultural institutions after 1959, these communities worked to reclaim their identity through ethnic associations and renewed transnational connections. Andrea J. Queeleyâs vivid fieldwork in Santiago and Guantánamo reveals how they challenged prevailing racial narratives, fought for social mobility and respectability, and revitalised their sense of belonging amid Cubaâs shifting politics. Richly textured and deeply moving, this volume presents a unique portrait of Afro-Caribbean identity formation that transcends ideological, temporal, and geographical boundaries.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiv, 260 pages.…

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Condizione: New. &Uumlber den AutorAndrea Queeley is assistant professor of anthropology and African diaspora studies at Florida International University.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the early twentieth century, laborers from the British West Indies immigrated to Cuba, attracted by employment opportunities. The Anglo-Caribbean diaspora flourished,but the years after the 1959 revolution saw the dismantling of many of their cultural institutions: the revolution dictated that in the name of unity there would be no hyphenated Cubans. This book turns an ethnographic lens on their descendants who - during the Special Period in the 1990s - moved to "rescue their roots" by revitalizingtheir ethnic associations and reestablishing transnational ties.Based on Andrea Queeley's fieldwork in Santiago and Guantánamo, Rescuing Our Roots looks at local and regional identity formations as well as racial politics in revolutionary Cuba. Queeley argues that, as the island experienced a resurgence in racism due in part to the economy's reliance on tourism, Anglo-Caribbean Cubans sought transnational connections not just in the hope of material support but also to challenge the association between blackness, inferiority, and immorality. Their desire for social mobility, political engagement, and a better economic situation operated alongside the fight for black respectability.Unlike most studies of black Cubans, which focus on Afro-Cuban religion or popular culture, Queeley's penetrating investigation offers a view of strategies and modes of black belonging that shift across ideological, temporal, and spatial boundaries.…

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