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A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century First Edition, Edition
Contributor(s): Lucero, Bonnie A. (Author)

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ISBN: 0817320032     ISBN-13: 9780817320034
Publisher: University Alabama Press
OUR PRICE: $52.20  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: April 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba
- History | Latin America - General
- Social Science | Minority Studies
Dewey: 972.914
LCCN: 2018038925
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" L (1.35 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product
Review Citations: Choice 08/01/2019
 
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Publisher Description:
A microhistory of racial segregation in Cienfuegos, a central Cuban port city

Founded as a white colony in 1819, Cienfuegos, Cuba, quickly became home to people of African descent, both free and enslaved, and later a small community of Chinese and other immigrants. Despite the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity that defined the city's population, the urban landscape was characterized by distinctive racial boundaries, separating the white city center from the heterogeneous peripheries. A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century explores how the de facto racial segregation was constructed and perpetuated in a society devoid of explicitly racial laws.

Drawing on the insights of intersectional feminism, Bonnie A. Lucero shows that the key to understanding racial segregation in Cuba is recognizing the often unspoken ways specifically classed notions and practices of gender shaped the historical production of race and racial inequality. In the context of nineteenth-century Cienfuegos, gender, race, and class converged in the concept of urban order, a complex and historically contingent nexus of ideas about the appropriate and desired social hierarchy among urban residents, often embodied spatially in particular relationships to the urban landscape.

As Cienfuegos evolved subtly over time, the internal logic of urban order was driven by the construction and defense of a legible, developed, aesthetically pleasing, and, most importantly, white city center. Local authorities produced policies that reduced access to the city center along class and gendered lines, for example, by imposing expensive building codes on centric lands, criminalizing poor peoples' leisure activities, regulating prostitution, and quashing organized labor. Although none of these policies mentioned race outright, this new scholarship demonstrates that the policies were instrumental in producing and perpetuating the geographic marginality and discursive erasure of people of color from the historic center of Cienfuegos during its first century of existence.

 
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