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Subject(s)

• Black people—Cuba—Social conditions [Browse]
• Black people—Cuba—History [Browse]
• Cuba—Race relations [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Foreign relations—Cuba [Browse]
• Cuba—Foreign relations—Soviet Union [Browse]

Related name

• Kirk, John M., editor [Browse]

Series

Contemporary Cuba [More in this series]

Summary note

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 engagement, and the opportunity for a better economic situation operates alongside ideas about respectability.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-247) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Nested diasporas, multiple mobilities, and the politics of black belonging
• British West Indian migration to Cuba: the roots and routes of respectability
• Get out or get involved: revolutionary change and conflicting visions of freedom
• Special identities in Cuba's special period: race, region, and revitalization
• "Somos negros finos" (we are refined blacks): rescuing roots as an assertion of respectable blackness
• "¿Gracias a la revolución?": narratives of social mobility as spaces of subject formation
• Conclusion: Dreams multiplied ... a final entrée to Cuba.

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ISBN

• 9780813061092 (hardback)
• 0813061091 (hardback)

LCCN

2015017863

OCLC

892432292

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