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Author Bronfman, Alejandra, 1962-

Title Measures of equality : social science, citizenship, and race in Cuba, 1902-1940 / Alejandra Bronfman
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations
Series Envisioning Cuba
Envisioning Cuba.
Contents Unsettled and nomadic : law, anthropology, and race -- Social science and the negro brujo -- Barbarism and its discontents -- Contested histories : public memory and collective identities -- Social science, state-making, and the politics of time -- The politics of blackness on the eve of revolution -- From comparsas to constitutions
Summary After Cuba's independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity. But racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship. Alejandra Bronfman traces the formation of Cuba's multiracial legal and political order in the early Republic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index
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Subject Equality -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century
Social justice -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century
Social sciences -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century
Social scientists -- Cuba -- Attitudes
Sociological jurisprudence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Equality
Politics and government
Race relations
Social justice
Social sciences
Social scientists -- Attitudes
Sociological jurisprudence
SUBJECT Cuba -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97004083
Cuba -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Subject Cuba
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004009060
ISBN 9780807828984
080782898X
0807876240
9780807876244