Nation for All Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba

Name: Nation for All Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba
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ISBN: 9780807849224

ISBN-10: 0807849227

ISBN-13: 9780807849224

Edition: 2001

Authors: Alejandro de la Fuente

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After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and inclusive country--a nation for all, as Jos Mart described it. But did the Cuban republic, and later the Cuban revolution, live up to these expectations? Tracing the formation and reformulation of nationalist ideologies, government policies, and different forms of social and political mobilization in republican and postrevolutionary Cuba, Alejandro de la Fuente…

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List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Alejandro de la Fuente is University Center for International Studies Research Professor of History and Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
The First Republic, 1902-1933
Racial Order or Racial Democracy?: Race and the Contending Notions of Cubanidad	p. 25
Electoral Politics	p. 54
Inequality; 1900-1950s
The Labor Market	p. 99
Education and Mobility	p. 138
The Second Republic, 1933-1958
A New Cuba?	p. 175
State and Racial Equality	p. 210
Socialism, 1959-1990s
Building a Nation for All	p. 259
The Special Period	p. 317
Epilogue	p. 335
Notes	p. 341
Bibliography	p. 415
Index	p. 437
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