Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba
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Abolitionism
African Diaspora
Afro-Diaspora
anti-black racism
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black civic culture
Black Women
Caribbean
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Citizenship
Cuba
Cuban Activism
Cuban Citizenship
Cuban Feminism
Cuban Politics
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gender reform
Government
History
intersectional
labor rights
Labor unions
Latin America
Latin American Feminism
Latin American feminists
legal reforms
modern democracy
national identity
Nationhood
patriarchy
political movements
Politics
prerevolutionary Cuba
Race Relations
racial equality
Racial Integration
Sexism
Social conditions
social ideologies
twentieth century
women activists
women of African descent
women's public roles
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- ISBN 9781683402084
- Weight: 552g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2021
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara Brunson traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts but 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 women's 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 women-without formal political power-navigated 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 women's 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.
Takkara Brunson is assistant professor of Africana studies at California State University, Fresno.
