TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mirabal,Nancy Raquel
TI  - Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 
T2  - Culture, Labor, History
SN  - 9780814761113
U1  - 305.8009747 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Race identity
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - History
KW  - Cubans
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Exiles
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Race
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Sex
KW  - HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Rhetorical Geographies --; 2. “With Painful Interest” --; 3. In Darkest Anonymity --; 4. Orphan Politics --; 5. Monumental Desires and Defiant Tributes --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept of Cubanidad, a shared sense of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of slavery, freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the question of what and who constituted “being Cuban” remained in flux and often, suspect. The first book to explore Cuban racial and sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Suspect Freedoms chronicles the largely unexamined and often forgotten history of more than a hundred years of Cuban exile, migration, diaspora, and community formation. Nancy Raquel Mirabal delves into the rich cache of primary sources, archival documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs, and oral histories to write what Michel Rolph Trouillot has termed an “unthinkable history.” Situating this pivotal era within larger theoretical discussions of potential, future, visibility, and belonging, Mirabal shows how these transformations complicated meanings of territoriality, gender, race, power, and labor. She argues that slavery, nation, and the fear that Cuba would become “another Haiti” were critical in the making of early diasporic Cubanidades, and documents how, by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Afro-Cubans were authors of their own experiences; organizing movements, publishing texts, and establishing important political, revolutionary, and social clubs. Meticulously documented and deftly crafted, Suspect Freedoms unravels a nuanced and vital history
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814761137.001.0001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814761137
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814761137/original
ER  -