Blackness as Taboo! Belonging and Citizenship in Cuba

This thesis uses fieldwork, vignettes, and a historical, racial, and political lens to understand how blackness is a subject of taboo that remains largely unsettled, unresolved, and contested within contemporary Cuban society. The taboo nature of blackness not only makes us pay attention to how black and nonblack Cubans come to interpret and value representations of a situated blackness in Cuba and the Caribbean, but also to rethink the powerful and privileged relationship between belonging and citizenship as ongoing processes that fashion the conditions of a racialized being of a complex diasporic history always to be reckon with, in the present/everyday.

    Item Description
    Name(s)
    Thesis advisor: Ulysse, Gina Athena
    Date
    April 15, 2017
    Extent
    142 pages
    Language
    eng
    Genre
    Physical Form
    electronic
    Discipline
    Rights and Use
    In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
    Restrictions on Use

    Access restricted indefinitely. Please contact wesscholar@wesleyan.edu for more information.

    Digital Collection
    PID
    ir:2145