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Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation offers a new perspective on
black political life in Cuba by analyzing the time between two
hallmark Cuban events, the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the Race
War of 1912. In so doing, this anthology provides fresh insight
into the ways in which Cubans practiced and understood black
freedom and resistance, from the aftermath of the Haitian
Revolution to the early years of the Cuban republic. Bringing
together an impressive range of scholars from the field of Cuban
studies, the volume examines, for the first time, the continuities
between disparate forms of political struggle and racial organizing
during the early years of the nineteenth century and traces them
into the early decades of the twentieth. Matt Childs, Manuel
Barcia, Gloria GarcÃa, and Reynaldo OrtÃz-Minayo explore the
transformation of Cuba's nineteenth-century sugar regime and the
ways in which African-descended people responded to these new
realities, while Barbara Danzie León and Matthew Pettway examine
the intellectual and artistic work that captured the politics of
this period. Aisha Finch, Ada Ferrer, Michele Reid-Vazquez,
Jacqueline Grant, and Joseph Dorsey consider new ways to think
about the categories of resistance and agency, the gendered
investments of traditional resistance histories, and the
continuities of struggle that erupted over the course of the
mid-nineteenth century. In the final section of the book, Fannie
Rushing, Aline Helg, Melina Pappademos, and Takkara Brunson delve
into Cuba's early nationhood and its fraught racial history. Isabel
Hernández Campos and W. F. Santiago-Valles conclude the book
with reflections on the process of history and commemoration in
Cuba. Together, the contributors rethink the ways in which
African-descended Cubans battled racial violence, created pathways
to citizenship and humanity, and exercised claims on the nation
state. Utilizing rare primary documents on the Afro-Cuban
communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Breaking the
Chains, Forging the Nation explores how black resistance to
exploitative systems played a central role in the making of the
Cuban nation.
While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba
and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since
the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar
and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array
of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess
Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze
and celebrate his contribution to scholarship in Cuban history, the
social sciences notably anthropology and law, religion and national
identity, literature, and music. Presenting Ortiz's seminal
thinking, including his profoundly influential concept of
'transculturation', Cuban Counterpoints explores the bold new
perspectives that he brought to bear on Cuban society. Much of his
most challenging and provocative thinking which embraced
simultaneity, conflict, inherent contradiction and hybridity has
remarkable relevance for current debates about Latin America's
complex and evolving societies."
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