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Rescuing Our Roots - The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba (Paperback)
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Rescuing Our Roots - The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Cuba
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In the early twentieth century, laborers from the British West
Indies immigrated to Cuba, attracted by employment opportunities.
The Anglo-Caribbean diaspora flourished,but the years after the
1959 revolution saw the dismantling of many of their cultural
institutions: the revolution dictated that in the name of unity
there would be no hyphenated Cubans. This book turns an
ethnographic lens on their descendants who - during the Special
Period in the 1990s - moved to "rescue their roots" by
revitalizingtheir ethnic associations and reestablishing
transnational ties. Based on Andrea Queeley's fieldwork in Santiago
and Guantanamo, Rescuing Our Roots looks at local and regional
identity formations as well as racial politics in revolutionary
Cuba. Queeley argues that, as the island experienced a resurgence
in racism due in part to the economy's reliance on tourism,
Anglo-Caribbean Cubans sought transnational connections not just in
the hope of material support but also to challenge the association
between blackness, inferiority, and immorality. Their desire for
social mobility, political engagement, and a better economic
situation operated alongside the fight for black respectability.
Unlike most studies of black Cubans, which focus on Afro-Cuban
religion or popular culture, Queeley's penetrating investigation
offers a view of strategies and modes of black belonging that shift
across ideological, temporal, and spatial boundaries.
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