Insurgent Cuba Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

Name: Insurgent Cuba Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898
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ISBN: 9780807847831

ISBN-10: 0807847836

ISBN-13: 9780807847831

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ada Ferrer

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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…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/25/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 1.100

Ada Ferrer is associate professor of history at New York University and author of Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: A Revolution the World Forgot



War



Slaves, Insurgents, and Citizens: The Early Ten Years' War, 1868-1870



Region, Race, and Transformation in the Ten Years' War, 1870-1878



Fear and Its Uses: The Little War, 1879-1880



Peace



A Fragile Peace: Colonialism, the State, and Rural Society, 1878-1895



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



War Again



Insurgent Identities: Race and the Western Invasion, 1895-1896



Race, Culture, and Contention: Political Leadership and the Onset of Peace


Epilogue and Prologue: Race, Nation, and Empire


Notes


Bibliography


Index