Jafari Sinclaire Allen

Ivenceremos?

The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An ethnography of sexual identity formation in contemporary Cuba.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349327
• ISBN-10: 0822349329
• Artikelnr.: 33622432

Autorenporträt

Jafari S. Allen is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Invoking "A larger freedom" 1
1. Looking (at) "Afro-Cuba(n)" 19
2. Discursive Sleight of Hand: Race, Sex, Gender 41
3. The Erotics and Politics of Self-making 74
4. De Cierta Manera . . . Hasta Cierto Punto (One Way or Another . . . Up
to a Certain Point) 100
5. Friendship as a Mode of Survival 129
6.  Hagamos un Chen! (We Make Change!) 157
Coda:  Vamos a Vencer! (We Will Win!) 186
Notes 195
References 211
Index 233