TY  - BOOK
AU  - Queeley,Andrea
TI  - Rescuing our roots: the African Anglo-Caribbean diaspora in contemporary Cuba 
T2  - Contemporary Cuba
SN  - 9780813055510
AV  - F1789.N3 Q44 2015eb
U1  - 305.80097291 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Black people
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - History
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - URSS
KW  - Relations extérieures
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-247) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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