Insurgent Cuba : race, nation, and revolution, 1868-1898 / Ada Ferrer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferrer, Ada.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

Black people.

Politics and government.

History.

Racism.

Cuba--History--Insurrection, 1868-1878.

Cuba.

Cuba--History--1878-1895.

Cuba--History--Revolution, 1895-1898.

Racism--Cuba--History--19th century.

Black people--Cuba--Politics and government--History--19th century.

Cuba--Race relations--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 273 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1999]

Summary:

In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement.

Ada Ferrer examines the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when a slaveholder began the revolution by freeing his slaves, until the intervention of racially segregated American forces in 1898. In so doing, she uncovers the struggles over the boundaries of citizenship and nationality that their participation brought to the fore, and she shows that even as black participation helped sustain the movement ideologically and militarily, it simultaneously prompted accusations of race war and fed the forces of counterinsurgency.

Carefully examining the tensions between racism and antiracism contained within Cuban nationalism, Ferrer paints a dynamic portrait of a movement built upon the coexistence of an ideology of racial fraternity and the persistence of presumptions of hierarchy.

Contents:

Introduction: A Revolution the World Forgot 1

Part I. War

Chapter 1. Slaves, Insurgents, and Citizens: The Early Ten Years' War, 1868-1870 15

Chapter 2. Region, Race, and Transformation in the Ten Years' War, 1870-1878 43

Chapter 3. Fear and Its Uses: The Little War, 1879-1880 70

Part II. Peace

Chapter 4. A Fragile Peace: Colonialism, the State, and Rural Society, 1878-1895 93

Chapter 5. Writing the Nation: Race, War, and Redemption in the Prose of Independence, 1886-1895 112

Part III. War Again

Chapter 6. Insurgent Identities: Race and the Western Invasion, 1895-1896 141

Chapter 7. Race, Culture, and Contention: Political Leadership and the Onset of Peace 170

Epilogue and Prologue: Race, Nation, and Empire 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266) and index.

ISBN:

080782500X

0807847836

OCLC:

40698569