Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba e-bog
273,24 DKK
(inkl. moms 341,55 DKK)
Illuminating the activism of Black women during Cubas prerevolutionary periodAssociation of BlackWomen Historians Letitia Woods Brown Book PrizeIn Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara Brunson traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts and played an important role in forging a modern democracy. Brunson takes a much-needed intersectional a...
E-bog
273,24 DKK
Forlag
University of Florida Press
Udgivet
7 marts 2023
Længde
278 sider
Genrer
1KJC
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781683403852
Illuminating the activism of Black women during Cubas prerevolutionary periodAssociation of BlackWomen Historians Letitia Woods Brown Book PrizeIn Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara Brunson traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts and played an important role in forging a modern democracy. Brunson takes a much-needed intersectional approach to the political history of the era, examining how Black womens engagement with questions of Cuban citizenship intersected with racial prejudice, gender norms, and sexual politics, incorporating Afro-diasporic and Latin American feminist perspectives.Brunson demonstrates that between the 1886 abolition of slavery in Cuba and the 1959 Revolution, Black womenwithout formal political powernavigated political movements in their efforts to create a more just society. She examines how women helped build a Black public sphere as they claimed moral respectability and sought racial integration. She reveals how Black women entered into national womens organizations, labor unions, and political parties to bring about legal reforms. Brunson shows how women of African descent achieved individual victories as part of a collective struggle for social justice; in doing so, she highlights how racism and sexism persisted even as legal definitions of Cuban citizenship evolved.