Jafari S. Allen

iVenceremos?

The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking ethnography on race, desire, and belonging among black Cubans in the early twenty-first-century

Produktdetails

• Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349501
• ISBN-10: 0822349507
• Artikelnr.: 33625221

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