{"product_id":"constructing-cuban-america-race-and-identity-in-floridas-caribbean-south-1868-1945-hardback-9781477329757","title":"Constructing Cuban America; Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945 (Hardback) 9781477329757","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eConstructing Cuban America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew Gomez (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477329757, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.481 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Black and white Cubans navigated issues of race, politics, and identity during the post-Civil War and early Jim Crow eras in South Florida.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e On July 4, 1876, during the centennial celebration of US independence, the city of Key West was different from other cities. In some of post–Civil War Florida, Black residents were hindered from participating in 4th of July festivities, but Key West's celebration, “led by a Cuban revolutionary mayor working in concert with a city council composed of Afro-Bahamians, Cubans, African Americans, and Anglos,” represented a profound exercise in interracial democracy amid the Radical Reconstruction era. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConstructing Cuban America\u003c\/i\u003e examines the first Cuban American communities in South Florida-Key West and Tampa-and how race played a central role in shaping the experiences of white and Black Cubans. Andrew Gomez argues that factors such as the Cuban independence movement and Radical Reconstruction produced interracial communities of Cubans that worked alongside African Americans and Afro-Bahamians in Florida, yielding several successes in interracial democratic representation, even as they continued to wrestle with elements of racial separatism within the Cuban community. But the conclusion of the Cuban War of Independence and early Jim Crow laws led to a fracture in the Cuban-American community. In the process, both Black and white Cubans posited distinct visions of Cuban-American identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: Retracing Race in Cuban South Florida \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Multiracial Democracy and Radical Reconstruction: Cubans in Key West, 1868–\u003cbr\u003e1888 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. Liberty and Labor in Cuban South Florida \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. The Specter of Jim Crow and the Limits of Interracial Democracy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. “\u003cbr\u003eTwo Cultures at the Same Time”\u003cbr\u003e: Blackness and Whiteness in Cuban South Florida \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Cuban Americans, the Depression, and World War II \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue: Memory and Historic Cuban America \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591020179736,"sku":"9781477329757","price":31.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/constructing-cuban-america-race-and-identity-in-floridas-caribbean-south-1868-1945-hardback-9781477329757","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}