Hierarchies at Home traces the experiences of Cuban domestic workers from the abolition of slavery through the 1959 revolution, centering the quotidian work that so many Cubans - in particular black Cuban women - did to survive. A fascinating, unique work on Cuban history that challenges established narratives.
Hierarchies at Home traces the experiences of Cuban domestic workers from the abolition of slavery through the 1959 revolution, centering the quotidian work that so many Cubans - in particular black Cuban women - did to survive. A fascinating, unique work on Cuban history that challenges established narratives.
Anasa Hicks is Assistant Professor of History at Florida State University. She specializes in Latin American and Caribbean history, focusing on twentieth-century Cuba, the Hispanic Caribbean, women and gender, and labor studies.
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Introduction: Violent intimacies: Constructions of nation, race, and gender inside Cuban households; 1. Embodied anxieties: Hygiene, honor, and domestic service in republican Cuba; 2. Of domestic (and other) offices: Black Cubans' claims after independence; 3. Stopping 'Creole Bolshevism'; Liberal correctives to increasing labor radicalism; 4. Patio fascists and domestic worker syndicates: Communism, constitutions, and the push for labor organization; 5. Pushing the present into the past: The revolution's solution to domestic service in the 1960s; 6. Conjuring ghosts: Domestic service's remains after 1959; Conclusion: Revisiting a racial democracy: Cuban history from inside out.
Introduction: Violent intimacies: Constructions of nation, race, and gender inside Cuban households; 1. Embodied anxieties: Hygiene, honor, and domestic service in republican Cuba; 2. Of domestic (and other) offices: Black Cubans' claims after independence; 3. Stopping 'Creole Bolshevism'; Liberal correctives to increasing labor radicalism; 4. Patio fascists and domestic worker syndicates: Communism, constitutions, and the push for labor organization; 5. Pushing the present into the past: The revolution's solution to domestic service in the 1960s; 6. Conjuring ghosts: Domestic service's remains after 1959; Conclusion: Revisiting a racial democracy: Cuban history from inside out.
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