Introduction
1 Interracial Couples from Colony to Revolution
2 Socialist Equality and the Color-Blind Revolution
3 Mapping Interracial Couples: Race and Space in
Havana
4 The Everyday Presence of Race
5 Blackness, Whiteness, Class, and the Emergent
Economy
6 Interracial Couples and Racism at Home
Epilogue
Keywords
Racism
and racial discrimination, Cuba Race Relations, Mestizaje and national
ideology, Cuba Special Period, Miscegenation / Race Mixture, Cuba
Late socialism, Generational Dynamics and change, Cuban Revolution
impact on race relations
Subtitle: Interracial
Couples in Contemporary Cuba Author: Nadine
T. Fernandez Subject:Anthropology,Latin American Studies Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4723-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4722-0 Pages:
232 pages Publication Date: March 2010
Praise:
"This excellent work breaks new ground in
our understanding of Cuban society by focusing on interracial
relationships, the sites where mestizaje is produced. Fernandez
analyzes these interactions and exchanges with all their contradictions
and complexities, making for a compelling read."-Alejandro de la
Fuente, author of A Nation for All:
Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba
"This extremely insightful book addresses a major paradox in Cuban
society. Fernandez's ethnography and sophisticated analysis dives deep
into the contradictory meanings of interracial romance, providing
much-needed sociocultural analysis."-Faye Harrison, author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in
the Global Age Description:
Scholars have long heralded mestizaje, or
race mixing, as the essence of the Cuban nation. Revolutionizing Romance is an
account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba as it is
experienced in interracial relationships. This ethnography tracks young
couples as they move in a world fraught with shifting connections of
class, race, and culture that are reflected in space, racialized
language, and media representations of blackness, whiteness, and
mixedness. As one of the few scholars to conduct long-term
anthropological fieldwork in the island nation, Nadine T. Fernandez
offers a rare insider’s view of the country’s transformations during
the post-Soviet era. Following a comprehensive history of racial
formations up through Castro’s rule, the book then delves into more
intimate and contemporary spaces. Language, space and place, foreign
tourism, and the realm of the family each reveal, through the author’s
deft analysis, the paradox of living a racialized life in a nation that
celebrates a policy of colorblind equality. About the Author:
