Revolutionizing Romance

Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19947751
AutoresNadine T Fernandez (0000-0002-7669-0787, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Páginas232
Data de publicação2020-12-31
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoRevolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRutgers University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.36019/9780813549231
OpenAlexW2620245754
Open LibraryOL26825703M
ISBN9780813549231
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas33

Scholars have long heralded mestizaje, or race mixing, as the essence of the Cuban nation. Revolutionizing Romance is an account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba as it is experienced in interracial relationships. This ethnography tracks young couples as they move in a world fraught with shifting connections of class, race, and culture that are reflected in space, racialized language, and media representations of blackness, whiteness, and mixedness. As one of the few scholars to conduct long-term anthropological fieldwork in the island nation, Nadine T. Fernandez offers a rare insider's view of the country's transformations during the post-Soviet era. Following a comprehensive history of racial formations up through Castro's rule, the book then delves into more intimate and contemporary spaces. Language, space and place, foreign tourism, and the realm of the family each reveal, through the author's deft analysis, the paradox of living a racialized life in a nation that celebrates a policy of colorblind equality

Art · Literature · Romance · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Cuba · Interracial marriage · race relations · Racially mixed people