Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality

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Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality
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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9780826360106
ISBN-13 : 0826360106
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Book Synopsis Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality by : Bonnie A. Lucero

Book excerpt: One of the most paradoxical aspects of Cuban history is the coexistence of national myths of racial harmony with lived experiences of racial inequality. Here a historian addresses this issue by examining the ways soldiers and politicians coded their discussions of race in ideas of masculinity during Cuba’s transition from colony to republic. Cuban insurgents, the author shows, rarely mentioned race outright. Instead, they often expressed their attitudes toward racial hierarchy through distinctly gendered language—revolutionary masculinity. By examining the relationship between historical experiences of race and discourses of masculinity, Lucero advances understandings about how racial exclusion functioned in a supposedly raceless society. Revolutionary masculinity, she shows, outwardly reinforced the centrality of color blindness to Cuban ideals of manhood at the same time as it perpetuated exclusion of Cubans of African descent from positions of authority.


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