Insurgent Cuba

Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

Bibliographic Data

ID24202028
AuthorsAda Ferrer
Year1999
Pages273
Publication date1999-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueInsurgent Cuba (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
Open LibraryOL32280M
ISBN9780807825006
LanguageEN
Citations received80

In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement. Ada Ferrer examines the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when a slaveholder began the revolution by freeing his slaves, until the intervention of racially segregated American forces in 1898. In so doing, she uncovers the struggles over the boundaries of citizenship and nationality that their participation brought to the fore, and she shows that even as black participation helped sustain the movement ideologically and militarily, it simultaneously prompted accusations of race war and fed the forces of counterinsurgency.

1868-1878 · 1878-1895 · 1895-1898 · 19th century · Black People · Blacks · Cuba · History · Insurrection · Insurrection, 1868-1878 · Political aspects · politics and government · race relations · Racism · revolution · Revolution, 1895-1898