Racial Migrations (eBook)

New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (Autor)

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2019
408 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18575-0 (ISBN)

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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is professor of history, American culture, and Latina/o studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 (Princeton).

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The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their homelandsIn the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society in Greenwich Village, these early Afro-Latino New Yorkers taught themselves to be poets, journalists, and revolutionaries. At the same time, these individuals-including Rafael Serra, a cigar maker, writer, and politician; Sotero Figueroa, a typesetter, editor, and publisher; and Gertrudis Heredia, one of the first women of African descent to study midwifery at the University of Havana-built a political network and articulated an ideal of revolutionary nationalism centered on the projects of racial and social justice. These efforts were critical to the poet and diplomat Jose Marti's writings about race and his bid for leadership among Cuban exiles, and to the later struggle to create space for black political participation in the Cuban Republic.In Racial Migrations, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof presents a vivid portrait of these largely forgotten migrant revolutionaries, weaving together their experiences of migrating while black, their relationships with African American civil rights leaders, and their evolving participation in nationalist political movements. By placing Afro-Latino New Yorkers at the center of the story, Hoffnung-Garskof offers a new interpretation of the revolutionary politics of the Spanish Caribbean, including the idea that Cuba could become a nation without racial divisions.A model of transnational and comparative research, Racial Migrations reveals the complexities of race-making within migrant communities and the power of small groups of immigrants to transform their home societies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • activism • African Americans • African diaspora • Afro-Cuban • Annexation • aristocracy • birth certificate • black people • Bonilla • Career • Charles L. Reason • Citizenship • Citizenship of the United States • Civil and Political Rights • Civilization • class conflict • Colonialism • Color line (civil rights issue) • comrade • cuban exile • cubans • cuban war of independence • demagogue • despotism • Duke University • enrique • Eugenics • Exclusion • Fraternity • Free People of Color • gertrudis • Government • grandparent • Greenwich Village • hatred • Ideology • Immigration • Institution • Insurgency • Intellectual • John Edward Bruce • Juan Morel Campos • Latin America • Latin Americans • Legitimacy (family law) • local government • Manliness (book) • mulatto • My Father • narrative • Nationality • Naturalization • newspaper • Pamphlet • Patriotism • person of color • Political Party • Politician • Politics • Prejudice • President of Cuba • printing • Publication • Public sphere • Publishing • Puerto Ricans • Racial Equality • Racial politics • Racial segregation • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • revolutionary movement • Schomburg • separatism • Slavery • Social Class • Social Status • Society • spaniards • Suffrage • Superiority (short story) • Supporter • syracuse university • Tax • Ten Years' War • The Newspaper • The New York Times • The Other Hand • Thompson Street (Manhattan) • Trade Union • typography • Universal manhood suffrage • University of California, Los Angeles • Voting • warfare • white people • Working Class • Writing • Yale University
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18575-1 / 0691185751
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18575-0 / 9780691185750