Ever faithful : race, loyalty, and the ends of empire in Spanish Cuba / David Sartorius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sartorius, David A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity--Cuba--History--19th century.

Black people.

Colonies.

Administration.

History.

Race relations.

Black people--Race identity.

Cuba--Race relations--History--19th century.

Cuba.

Spain--Colonies--America--Administration--History--19th century.

Spain.

America.

Physical Description:

xix, 312 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Known for much of the nineteenth century as ôthe ever-faithful isle,ö Cuba did not earn its independence from Spain until 1898, long after most American colonies had achieved emancipation from European rule. In this groundbreaking history, David Sartorius explores the relationship between political allegiance and race in nineteenth-century Cuba. Challenging assumptions that loyalty to the Spanish empire was the exclusive province of the white Cuban elite, he examines the free and enslaved people of African descent who actively supported colonialism. By claiming loyalty, many black and mulatto Cubans attained some degree of social mobility, legal freedom, and political inclusion in a world where hierarchy and inequality were the fundamental lineaments of colonial subjectivity. Sartorius makes a bold call for fresh perspective on imperial ideologies of race and on the rich political history of the African diaspora. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : A faithful account of colonial racial politics

Belonging to an empire : race and rights

Suspicious affinities : loyal subjectivity and the paternalist public

The will to freedom : Spanish allegiances in the Ten Years' War

Publicizing loyalty : race and the post-Zanjón public sphere

"Long live Spain! death to autonomy!" Liberalism and slave emancipation

The price of integrity : limited loyalties in revolution

Conclusion : Subject citizens and the tragedy of loyalty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-303) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sartorius, David A. Ever faithful

ISBN:

9780822355793

0822355795

9780822355939

0822355930

OCLC:

853287148