Cuban Color in Tourism and la Lucha An Ethnography of Racial Meanings

Name: Cuban Color in Tourism and la Lucha An Ethnography of Racial Meanings
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ISBN: 9780199739660

ISBN-10: 0199739668

ISBN-13: 9780199739660

Edition: 2010

Authors: L. Kaifa Roland

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Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha : An Ethnography of Racial Meanings offers a provocative look at what it means to belong in modern socialist Cuba. Drawn from her extensive travels throughout Cuba over the past decade, author L. Kaifa Roland pulls back the curtain on a country that has remained mysterious to Americans since the mid-twentieth century. Through vivid vignettes and firsthand details, Roland exposes the lasting effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent rise of state-sponsored segregated tourism in Cuba. She demonstrates how the creation of separate spheres for locals and tourists has had two effects. First, tourism reestablished the racial apartheid that…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 8.10" wide x 5.40" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface



Race, Tourism, and Belonging in Cuba


Welcome to Cuba


The Meaning(s) of "Race"


Tourism and the Caribbean


Socialism and Cuba's Revolutionary Ideal


Post-socialist Globalization


Methodology



"Blackness" and Race Matters in Cuba


Raciality in Cuba


Race and the Revolution


From Black(ness) to White(ned)


Gendered Race/Raced Gender


Conclusion



Surviving through La Lucha


La Lucha


Jineteros (Hustlers)


Marrying the Other


Conclusion



Tourism and Belonging


Who Tours Cuba?


Privilege and Place


Power and Belonging


The Yuma/Jinetero Dynamic


Conclusion



Of Shorts and Segregated Socialism


Separate and Unequal


Transition or Transformation?


Conclusion


Epilogue: Where Are They Now?


From Jineteros to Perros Callejeros


Yumas Out, Pepes In


Raul Castro and Change


Timeline of Cuban History


Student Resource Guide


Glossary of Key Terms


Glossary of Key Spanish/Cuban Terms


Bibliography


Index