Hierarchies at Home: Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution

ISBN-13: 9781316513651 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 247 str.

Anasa (Florida State University) Hicks

Opis

This book destabilizes racialized and gendered assumptions about labour in Cuba and challenges traditional chronologies of 20th-century Cuban history.

Recenzje

'Hierarchies at Home explodes the myth of the 'respectable' Cuban family whose whiteness often depended on the exploitation and invisibility of Black and female labor. With meticulous research and scrutinizing insight, Anasa Hicks illuminates the continuity of violence, racial prejudice and gendered scripts that confined the agency of  domestics by 'unsilencing' their voices and perspectives. Ignored by contemporaries and historians alike, Black domestics emerge as central protagonists in the struggle over who and how Cuba would define modernity, citizenship and national wholeness amidst the legacies of slavery.' Lillian Guerra, University of Florida

Spis treści

Introduction: Violent intimacies: Constructions of nation, race, and gender inside Cuban households; 1. Embodied anxieties: Hygiene, honor, and domestic service in republican Cuba; 2. Of domestic (and other) offices: Black Cubans' claims after independence; 3. Stopping 'Creole Bolshevism'; Liberal correctives to increasing labor radicalism; 4. Patio fascists and domestic worker syndicates: Communism, constitutions, and the push for labor organization; 5. Pushing the present into the past: The revolution's solution to domestic service in the 1960s; 6. Conjuring ghosts: Domestic service's remains after 1959; Conclusion: Revisiting a racial democracy: Cuban history from inside out.