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Drawing on the insights of intersectional feminism, Bonnie Lucero shows that the key to understanding racial segregation in Cuba is recognising the often unspoken ways specifically classed notions and practices of gender shaped the historical production of race and racial inequality.
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An insightful and well-researched microhistory of the range of dynamics that shaped race relations, urban order, and sexual labor in Cienfuegos.
A Cuban City, Segregated joins an increasingly rich historiography centered on the political and social history - especially with regard to race and gender - of Cuba during the nineteenth century."" - Tiffany A. Sippial, author of
Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840–1920""This is an excellent study of the construction of urban order in a nineteenth-century Cuban city and a unique contribution to several bodies of literature in the field, especially Latin American urban history, studies of race and slavery, and Cuban studies."" - Guadalupe García, author of
Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana and coeditor of
Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of ResistanceTable of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Terminology
- Introduction: Urban Orderand Racial Exclusion
- 1. A White Colony in the Age of ""Africanization,"" 1790–1830s
- 2. A Town of Racial Enclaves, 1840–1860s
- 3. Freedom and Marginality in a Divided City, 1860–1890s
- 4. Negotiating Exclusion in the Historic City Center, 1890s
- 5. Consolidating a White City Center under US Rule
- Conclusion: Reclaiming Urban Space in the Early Republic
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
