Rescuing our roots : the African Anglo-Caribbean diaspora in contemporary Cuba /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Queeley, Andrea, author.
Imprint:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Contemporary Cuba Contemporary Cuba.
Subject:	Blacks -- Cuba -- Social conditions. Blacks -- Cuba -- History. Blacks. Blacks -- Social conditions. Diplomatic relations. Race relations. Cuba -- Race relations. Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Cuba. Cuba -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. Cuba. Soviet Union. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11909513

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ISBN:	9780813055510 0813055512 9780813051376 0813051371 9780813061092 0813061091
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-247) and index. English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 23, 2016).
Summary:	Andrea Queeley examines the interconnections between blackness, inequality, migration, and Diaspora in the wake of the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on Cuba. Rescuing Our Roots shows, via ethnography, how black Anglophone Caribbean people's desire for social mobility, political engagement, and the opportunity for a better economic situation operates alongside ideas about respectability.
Other form:	Print version: Druck-Ausgabe Queeley, Andrea. Rescuing Our Roots : The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba. Gainsville : University Press of Florida, ©2015

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Nested diasporas, multiple mobilities, and the politics of black belonging
British West Indian migration to Cuba: the roots and routes of respectability
Get out or get involved: revolutionary change and conflicting visions of freedom
Special identities in Cuba's special period: race, region, and revitalization
"Somos negros finos" (we are refined blacks): rescuing roots as an assertion of respectable blackness
"¿Gracias a la revolución?": narratives of social mobility as spaces of subject formation
Conclusion: Dreams multiplied ... a final entré to Cuba.

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