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

• Tác giả: Andrea Queeley
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0813061092
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 305.80097291 Ethnic and national groups
• Mô tả vật lý: xiv, 258 pages : , illustrations ; , 24 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật
• ID: 277585
• Chủ đề: 1. Black people--Hist--Cuba; 2. Black people--Social conditi--Cuba

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-247) and index

Tóm tắt

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 respectabil