Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New
York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule.
While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned,
dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood.
An underlying element was the concept of Cubanidad, a shared sense
of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of
slavery, freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the
question of what and who constituted "being Cuban" remained in flux
and often, suspect. The first book to explore Cuban racial and
sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, Suspect Freedoms chronicles the largely unexamined and
often forgotten history of more than a hundred years of Cuban
exile, migration, diaspora, and community formation. Nancy Raquel
Mirabal delves into the rich cache of primary sources, archival
documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs,
and oral histories to write what Michel Rolph Trouillot has termed
an "unthinkable history." Situating this pivotal era within larger
theoretical discussions of potential, future, visibility, and
belonging, Mirabal shows how these transformations complicated
meanings of territoriality, gender, race, power, and labor. She
argues that slavery, nation, and the fear that Cuba would become
"another Haiti" were critical in the making of early diasporic
Cubanidades, and documents how, by the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, Afro-Cubans were authors of their own
experiences; organizing movements, publishing texts, and
establishing important political, revolutionary, and social clubs.
Meticulously documented and deftly crafted, Suspect Freedoms
unravels a nuanced and vital history.
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