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 participation brought to the fore, and she
shows that even as black participation helped sustain the movement
ideologically and militarily, it simultaneously prompted
accusations of race war and fed the forces of
counterinsurgency.
Carefully examining the tensions between racism and antiracism
contained within Cuban nationalism, Ferrer paints a dynamic
portrait of a movement built upon the coexistence of an ideology of
racial fraternity and the persistence of presumptions of
hierarchy.
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