Rescuing Our Roots : The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba / Andrea Queeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Queeley, Andrea, author.

Series:

Contemporary Cuba.

Contemporary Cuba

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Cuba--History.

Black people.

Black people--Cuba--Social conditions.

Cuba--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

Cuba.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Cuba.

Soviet Union.

Cuba--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Andrea Queeley examines the interconnections between blackness, inequality, migration, and Diaspora in the wake of the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on Cuba. Rescuing Our Roots shows, via ethnography, how black Anglophone Caribbean people's desire for social mobility, political engagement, and the opportunity for a better economic situation operates alongside ideas about respectability.

Contents:

Introduction: Nested diasporas, multiple mobilities, and the politics of black belonging

British West Indian migration to Cuba: the roots and routes of respectability

Get out or get involved: revolutionary change and conflicting visions of freedom

Special identities in Cuba's special period: race, region, and revitalization

"Somos negros finos" (we are refined blacks): rescuing roots as an assertion of respectable blackness

"Gracias a la revolución?": narratives of social mobility as spaces of subject formation

Conclusion: Dreams multiplied ... a final entre to Cuba.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5137-1

0-8130-5551-2

OCLC:

945447634