Rescuing our roots : the African Anglo-Caribbean diaspora in contemporary Cuba / Andrea Queeley.

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 engagem...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Contemporary Cuba.
Main Author: Queeley, Andrea (Author)
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Series:Contemporary Cuba.
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Physical Description:xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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