Karen Y Morrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 692863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Y Morrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrison |
| SIGNATURE | MORRISON K Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6686-1661 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
Sustaining Freedom and Second Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Cuba
This essay reviews the following works:Freedom from Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba. By Gerard Aching. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 241. $48.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780253016935.Slavery and Politics: Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850. By Rafael Marquese, Tâmis Peixoto Parron, and Márcia Regina Berbel. Translated by Leonardo Marques. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. Pp. 1 + 351. $29.95 paperb…
Spanish Imperial Vassalage and the Social Reproduction of Slavery in Colonial Cuba
Inside the region’s emergent, capitalist political economy, feudal vassalage continued to define each social sector’s rights and responsibilities vis-á-vis the Spanish Crown. The rights of enslaved vassals derived from their potential contributions to the Spanish monarchy’s imperial survival, in their capacity to populate the extensive empire with loyal Catholic subjects and potential military defenders. These concerns also justified the Spanish …
José Martí and the Global Origins of Cuban Independence, written by Armando García de la Torre
Devyn Spence Benson. Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution
The elimination of racism had, until relatively recently, been one of the successes claimed by Cuba’s revolutionary government. Devyn Spence Benson makes a significant contribution to a growing body of scholarship that has proven Cuba’s claim false. Although Benson’s focus is the brief, first three-year period of the revolution (1959–1962), she provides rich detail on the revolution’s initial anti-racist efforts and their failure. Antiracism in C…
Afro-Latin American Women Writers and the Historical Complexities of Reproducing Race
This essay describes the common concerns about the social reproduction of race found in the works of pioneering Afro-Latin American writers Maria de Fermina Reis, Irma Pedroso, Carolina Maria de Jesus and Daisy Rubiera Castillo. Each was the first African-descended woman in Brazil or Cuba to author a fictional novel or testimonial autobiography. Although separated by time and place, they were united in their projection of a black racial pride tha…
Cuba's Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000
Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory by Carrie Hamilton (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). ISBN 9781469618913.
Cimarrones de Panamá: La forja de una identidad afroamericana en el siglo XVI
Jean-Pierre Tardieu builds on several generations of Panamanian scholarship, such as that of Armando Fortune, María del Carmen Borrego Plá, and Luis Diez Castillo, to offer readers the most thorough study to date of sixteenth-century maroon community formation anywhere in the Americas. He begins with the standard narrative of Spaniards caught between their desire for African laborers and the territory’s ability to conceal runaways. The Castilla d…
Slave Mothers and White Fathers: Defining Family and Status in Late Colonial Cuba
This paper outlines the mechanisms used to position the offspring of slave women and white men at various points within late nineteenth-century Cuba's racial hierarchy. The reproductive choices available to these parents allowed for small, but significant, transformations to the existing patterns of race and challenged the social separation that typically under girded African slavery in the Americas. As white men mated with black and mulatta wome…
The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery
Often a work’s title is an unsatisfactory reflection of the complexity of its arguments. Such is the case with Matt Child’s 1812 Aponte Rebellion, which pleasantly defies expectations of a rehashing of the armed struggle of Cuba’s free and enslaved people of color to liberate themselves from racial discrimination and bondage. Childs masterfully situates early nineteenth-century Cuba into the emerging historiography on diasporic African participat…
Creating an Alternative Kinship: Slavery, Freedom, and Nineteenth-Century Afro-Cuban Hijos Naturales
This article contributes to the histories of slavery and of African-descended families in the Americas by examining the recognition of nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban hijos naturales (or children born outside of wedlock) as a means of family formation in late colonial Cuba. With legal "recognition," men from a variety of races and classes claimed responsibility for these children. In doing so, they created a creole family form that developed to sui…
Entre a mão e os anéis: A Lei dos Sexagenários e os caminhos da abolição no Brasil
Three key moments have marked the areas of greatest historiographic interest related to the abolition of Brazilian slavery. These moments have been the termination of the slave trade (1831/1850), the Law of the Free Womb (1871), and final emancipation in 1888. The 1888 result is often presented with teleological inevitability, as external diplomatic forces and domestic popular demands forced leading Brazilians to recognize the incompatibility bet…
Slave Mothers and White Fathers: Defining Family and Status in Late Colonial Cuba
This paper outlines the mechanisms used to position the offspring of slave women and white men at various points within late nineteenth-century Cuba's racial hierarchy. The reproductive choices available to these parents allowed for small, but significant, transformations to the existing patterns of race and challenged the social separation that typically under girded African slavery in the Americas. As white men mated with black and mulatta wome…
Creating an Alternative Kinship: Slavery, Freedom, and Nineteenth-Century Afro-Cuban Hijos Naturales
This article contributes to the histories of slavery and of African-descended families in the Americas by examining the recognition of nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban hijos naturales (or children born outside of wedlock) as a means of family formation in late colonial Cuba. With legal "recognition," men from a variety of races and classes claimed responsibility for these children. In doing so, they created a creole family form that developed to sui…
Entre a mão e os anéis: A Lei dos Sexagenários e os caminhos da abolição no Brasil
Three key moments have marked the areas of greatest historiographic interest related to the abolition of Brazilian slavery. These moments have been the termination of the slave trade (1831/1850), the Law of the Free Womb (1871), and final emancipation in 1888. The 1888 result is often presented with teleological inevitability, as external diplomatic forces and domestic popular demands forced leading Brazilians to recognize the incompatibility bet…
Entre a mão e os anéis: A Lei dos Sexagenários e os caminhos da abolição no Brasil
Three key moments have marked the areas of greatest historiographic interest related to the abolition of Brazilian slavery. These moments have been the termination of the slave trade (1831/1850), the Law of the Free Womb (1871), and final emancipation in 1888. The 1888 result is often presented with teleological inevitability, as external diplomatic forces and domestic popular demands forced leading Brazilians to recognize the incompatibility bet…
Creating an Alternative Kinship: Slavery, Freedom, and Nineteenth-Century Afro-Cuban Hijos Naturales
This article contributes to the histories of slavery and of African-descended families in the Americas by examining the recognition of nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban hijos naturales (or children born outside of wedlock) as a means of family formation in late colonial Cuba. With legal "recognition," men from a variety of races and classes claimed responsibility for these children. In doing so, they created a creole family form that developed to sui…
The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery
Often a work’s title is an unsatisfactory reflection of the complexity of its arguments. Such is the case with Matt Child’s 1812 Aponte Rebellion, which pleasantly defies expectations of a rehashing of the armed struggle of Cuba’s free and enslaved people of color to liberate themselves from racial discrimination and bondage. Childs masterfully situates early nineteenth-century Cuba into the emerging historiography on diasporic African participat…
Slave Mothers and White Fathers: Defining Family and Status in Late Colonial Cuba
This paper outlines the mechanisms used to position the offspring of slave women and white men at various points within late nineteenth-century Cuba's racial hierarchy. The reproductive choices available to these parents allowed for small, but significant, transformations to the existing patterns of race and challenged the social separation that typically under girded African slavery in the Americas. As white men mated with black and mulatta wome…
Cimarrones de Panamá: La forja de una identidad afroamericana en el siglo XVI
Jean-Pierre Tardieu builds on several generations of Panamanian scholarship, such as that of Armando Fortune, María del Carmen Borrego Plá, and Luis Diez Castillo, to offer readers the most thorough study to date of sixteenth-century maroon community formation anywhere in the Americas. He begins with the standard narrative of Spaniards caught between their desire for African laborers and the territory’s ability to conceal runaways. The Castilla d…
Cuba's Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000
Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory by Carrie Hamilton (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). ISBN 9781469618913.
Afro-Latin American Women Writers and the Historical Complexities of Reproducing Race
This essay describes the common concerns about the social reproduction of race found in the works of pioneering Afro-Latin American writers Maria de Fermina Reis, Irma Pedroso, Carolina Maria de Jesus and Daisy Rubiera Castillo. Each was the first African-descended woman in Brazil or Cuba to author a fictional novel or testimonial autobiography. Although separated by time and place, they were united in their projection of a black racial pride tha…
José Martí and the Global Origins of Cuban Independence, written by Armando García de la Torre
Devyn Spence Benson. Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution
The elimination of racism had, until relatively recently, been one of the successes claimed by Cuba’s revolutionary government. Devyn Spence Benson makes a significant contribution to a growing body of scholarship that has proven Cuba’s claim false. Although Benson’s focus is the brief, first three-year period of the revolution (1959–1962), she provides rich detail on the revolution’s initial anti-racist efforts and their failure. Antiracism in C…
Spanish Imperial Vassalage and the Social Reproduction of Slavery in Colonial Cuba
Inside the region’s emergent, capitalist political economy, feudal vassalage continued to define each social sector’s rights and responsibilities vis-á-vis the Spanish Crown. The rights of enslaved vassals derived from their potential contributions to the Spanish monarchy’s imperial survival, in their capacity to populate the extensive empire with loyal Catholic subjects and potential military defenders. These concerns also justified the Spanish …
Sustaining Freedom and Second Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Cuba
This essay reviews the following works:Freedom from Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba. By Gerard Aching. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 241. $48.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780253016935.Slavery and Politics: Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850. By Rafael Marquese, Tâmis Peixoto Parron, and Márcia Regina Berbel. Translated by Leonardo Marques. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. Pp. 1 + 351. $29.95 paperb…
As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Cuban History and Society (8 works) · History (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Demography (4 works)