Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution - Softcover

Brock, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566395879 ISBN 13: 9781566395878

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This collection traces relations between Cubans and African-Americans from the abolitionist era to the Cuban Revolution of 1959. It aims to expand understanding of history from below and reflect trends in PanAfricanist and African Diaspora by tracing a link between two peoples of African descent.

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From the Publisher

The relationship between the two peoples of color, their similar experiences with slavery and reaching for political power, and their parallel race consciousness

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The relationship between two peoples of color, their similar experiences with slavery, their struggles for political power, and their parallel race consciousness

FOR MANY BLACK AMERICANS, the prominence and success of black Cubans in early efforts on the island for independence and abolition highlighted a sense of racial identity and pride, while after U.S. intervention the suppression of Afro-Cuban aspirations created a strong interest among African-Americans concerning Cuban affairs. This collection, edited by a black Cuban and a black American, traces the relations between Cubans and African-Americans from the abolitionist era to the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

The eleven essays gathered here, written by scholars from both countries, heighten our appreciation of African-Americans as international actors and challenge the notion that Cubans had little or no race consciousness. This is one of the first studies of the world capitalist system to track the international consciousness of working peoples, peoples of color, and women. With a focus on two sets of peoples not in state power, Between Race and Empire expands our understanding of "history from below, " and reflects current trends in PanAfricanist and African Diaspora studies by tracing a little-studied linkage between peoples of African descent.

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1566395879
• ISBN 13: 9781566395878
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 328