Breaking the chains, forging the nation : the Afro-Cuban fight for freedom and equality, 1812-1912 / edited by Aisha Finch and Fannie Rushing ; with a foreword by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finch, Aisha, 1976- editor.

Rushing, Fannie, 1940- editor.

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, writer of foreword.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people.

History.

Politics and government.

Race relations.

Cuba--Race relations--Political aspects--History.

Cuba.

Black people--Cuba--Politics and government.

Black people--Cuba--History.

Black people--Politics and government.

Race relations--Political aspects.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 321 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Breaking the Chains, Forging a Nation offers a new perspective on black political life in Cuba by analyzing the time between two hallmark Cuban events, the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the Race War of 1912. In so doing, it provides fresh insight into the ways in which black freedom and resistance were practiced and understood in Cuba, from the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution to the early years of the Cuban republic. Bringing together an impressive range of scholars from the field of Cuban Studies, the volume is the first to examine the continuities between disparate forms of political struggle and racial organizing during the early years of the nineteenth century and trace them into the early decades of the twentieth. Together, the authors in this collection rethink the ways in which African-descended Cubans battled racial violence, created pathways to citizenship and humanity, and exercised claims on the nation state"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"Commanders in the diaspora": West African warfare in colonial Cuba and the issue of leadership / Manuel Barcia

In search of their rights: slaves and the law / Gloria García

Unlocking the spatial code of plantation landscape: material processes and social space in Cuban slavery, 1760-1870 / Reynaldo Ortíz-Minaya

José Antonio Aponte in the work of José Luciano Franco: a historiographical analysis on the occasion of the Bicentennial of 1812 / Barbara Danzie León

Braggarts, charlatans, and curros: black Cuban masculinity and humor in the poetry of Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés / Matthew Pettway

The repeating rebellion: slave resistance and political consciousness in nineteenth-century Cuba, 1812-1844 / Aisha Finch

Formidable rebels: enslaved and free women of color in Cuba's conspiracy of La Escalera, 1843-1844 / Michele Reid-Vazquez

Leopard men: manhood and power in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba / Jacqueline Grant

Agency and its lack among liberated Africans: the case of Gavino the waterboy / Joseph C. Dorsey

Resistance, "race," and place in Cuba during the transition of empires, 1878-1908 / Fannie Theresa Rushing

The Cuban Race War of 1912 and the uses and transgressions of blackness / Melina Pappademos

Gender and the role of women in the Partido Independiente de Color / Takkara Brunson

The role of museums in the preservation of historical memory: the Museum of the Slave Route in Cuba / Isabel Hernández Campos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

9780807170625

0807170623

OCLC:

1053864553