Anasa Hicks (Florida State University)

Hierarchies at Home

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Produktbeschreibung

Hierarchies at Home traces the experiences of Cuban domestic workers from the abolition of slavery through the 1959 revolution, centering the quotidian work that so many Cubans â in particular black Cuban women â did to survive. A fascinating, unique work on Cuban history that challenges established narratives.

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Produktdetails

• Afro-Latin America
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781009074513
• ISBN-10: 1009074512
• Artikelnr.: 70524560

Autorenporträt

Anasa Hicks is Assistant Professor of History at Florida State University. She specializes in Latin American and Caribbean history, focusing on twentieth-century Cuba, the Hispanic Caribbean, women and gender, and labor studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Violent intimacies: Constructions of nation, race, and gender
inside Cuban households; 1. Embodied anxieties: Hygiene, honor, and
domestic service in republican Cuba; 2. Of domestic (and other) offices:
Black Cubans' claims after independence; 3. Stopping 'Creole Bolshevism';
Liberal correctives to increasing labor radicalism; 4. Patio fascists and
domestic worker syndicates: Communism, constitutions, and the push for
labor organization; 5. Pushing the present into the past: The revolution's
solution to domestic service in the 1960s; 6. Conjuring ghosts: Domestic
service's remains after 1959; Conclusion: Revisiting a racial democracy:
Cuban history from inside out.