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Hierarchies at Home - Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution (Hardcover)
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Hierarchies at Home - Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution (Hardcover)
Series: Afro-Latin America
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Hierarchies at Home traces the experiences of Cuban domestic
workers from the abolition of slavery through the 1959 revolution.
Domestic service - childcare, cleaning, chauffeuring for private
homes - was both ubiquitous and ignored as formal labor in Cuba, a
phenomenon made possible because of who supposedly performed it. In
Cuban imagery, domestic workers were almost always black women and
their supposed prevalence in domestic service perpetuated the myth
of racial harmony. African-descended domestic workers were 'like
one of the family', just as enslaved Cubans had supposedly been
part of the families who owned them before slavery's abolition.
This fascinating work challenges this myth, revealing how domestic
workers consistently rejected their invisibility throughout the
twentieth century. By following a group marginalized by racialized
and gendered assumptions, Anasa Hicks destabilizes traditional
analyses on Cuban history, instead offering a continuous narrative
that connects pre- and post-revolutionary Cuba.
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