Bonnie A. Lucero

Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality (eBook, ePUB)

Gendering War and Politics in Cuba

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of the most paradoxical aspects of Cuban history is the coexistence of national myths of racial harmony with lived experiences of racial inequality. Here a historian addresses this issue by examining the ways soldiers and politicians coded their discussions of race in ideas of masculinity during Cuba's transition from colony to republic. Cuban insurgents, the author shows, rarely mentioned race outright. Instead, they often expressed their attitudes toward racial hierarchy through distinctly gendered language-revolutionary masculinity.

By examining the relationship between historical experiences of race and discourses of masculinity, Lucero advances understandings about how racial exclusion functioned in a supposedly raceless society. Revolutionary masculinity, she shows, outwardly reinforced the centrality of color blindness to Cuban ideals of manhood at the same time as it perpetuated exclusion of Cubans of African descent from positions of authority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826360106
• Artikelnr.: 59595362

Autorenporträt

Bonnie A. Lucero is an associate professor of history and the director of the Center for Latino Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown. She is also a coeditor of Voices of Crime: Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America. She lives in Houston, Texas.