Breaking the chains, forging the nation : the Afro-Cuban fight for freedom and equality, 1812-1912 / edited by Aisha Finch and Fannie Rushing ; with a foreword by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.

"Breaking the Chains, Forging a Nation offers a new perspective on black political life in Cuba by analyzing the time between two hallmark Cuban events, the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the Race War of 1912. In so doing, it provides fresh insight into the ways in which black freedom and resistance w...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Finch, Aisha, 1976- (Editor)
Rushing, Fannie, 1940- (Editor)
Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Black people > Cuba > Politics and government.
Cuba > Race relations > Political aspects > History.
Black people > Cuba > History.
Black people.
Black people > Politics and government.
Race relations > Political aspects.
Cuba.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvi, 321 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Commanders in the diaspora": West African warfare in colonial Cuba and the issue of leadership / Manuel Barcia
  • In search of their rights: slaves and the law / Gloria García
  • Unlocking the spatial code of plantation landscape: material processes and social space in Cuban slavery, 1760-1870 / Reynaldo Ortíz-Minaya
  • José Antonio Aponte in the work of José Luciano Franco: a historiographical analysis on the occasion of the Bicentennial of 1812 / Barbara Danzie León
  • Braggarts, charlatans, and curros: black Cuban masculinity and humor in the poetry of Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés / Matthew Pettway
  • The repeating rebellion: slave resistance and political consciousness in nineteenth-century Cuba, 1812-1844 / Aisha Finch
  • Formidable rebels: enslaved and free women of color in Cuba's conspiracy of La Escalera, 1843-1844 / Michele Reid-Vazquez
  • Leopard men: manhood and power in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba / Jacqueline Grant
  • Agency and its lack among liberated Africans: the case of Gavino the waterboy / Joseph C. Dorsey
  • Resistance, "race," and place in Cuba during the transition of empires, 1878-1908 / Fannie Theresa Rushing
  • The Cuban Race War of 1912 and the uses and transgressions of blackness / Melina Pappademos
  • Gender and the role of women in the Partido Independiente de Color / Takkara Brunson
  • The role of museums in the preservation of historical memory: the Museum of the Slave Route in Cuba / Isabel Hernández Campos.