Suspect freedoms : the racial and sexual politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mirabal, Nancy Raquel, 1966- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2017].
Series:	Culture, labor, history.
Subjects:	Cubans > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century. Cubans > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century. Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > History. Exiles > New York (State) > New York > History. Cubans > New York (State) > New York > Ethnic identity > History. Blacks > Race identity > New York (State) > New York > History. Race > Political aspects > New York (State) > New York > History. Sex > Political aspects > New York (State) > New York > History. New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations > History. New York (N.Y.) > Race relations > History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Diasporic histories and archival hauntings
Rhetorical geographies : annexation, fear, and the impossibility of Cuban diasporic whiteness, 1840-1868
"With painful interest" : the Ten Years' War, masculinity, and the politics of revolutionary Blackness, 1865-1898
In darkest anonymity : labor, revolution, and the uneasy visibility of Afro-Cubans in New York, 1880-1901
Orphan politics : race, migration, and the trouble with "new" colonialisms, 1898-1945
Monumental desires and defiant tributes : Antonio Maceo and the early history of El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, 1945-1957
Epilogue.