Book contents
- Hierarchies at Home
- Afro-Latin America
- Hierarchies at Home
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note
- Introduction The Violent Intimacy of Nation-Building, Race, and Gender Inside Cuban Households
- 1 Embodied Anxieties
- 2 Of Domestic (and Other) Offices
- 3 Stopping “Creole Bolshevism”
- 4 Patio Fascists and Domestic Worker Syndicates
- 5 Pushing the Present into the Past
- 6 Conjuring Ghosts
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Cuban History from Inside Out
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2022
- Hierarchies at Home
- Afro-Latin America
- Hierarchies at Home
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note
- Introduction The Violent Intimacy of Nation-Building, Race, and Gender Inside Cuban Households
- 1 Embodied Anxieties
- 2 Of Domestic (and Other) Offices
- 3 Stopping “Creole Bolshevism”
- 4 Patio Fascists and Domestic Worker Syndicates
- 5 Pushing the Present into the Past
- 6 Conjuring Ghosts
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The book’s conclusion considers its implications for histories of the Americas more broadly. The persistence of both intrapersonal and institutional racial discrimination in nations historically considered racial democracies has long been of interest to historians of the region. Hierarchies at Home contributes to a field of literature that uses the domestic sphere as a starting point to understand how racialized attitudes persist in and shape supposed “racial democracies.” It builds on that body of work by simultaneously considering how racial politics embedded in domestic service affects the archive and the documents to which historians have access, and by pointing out strategies to counteract the archival dearth. The conclusion also suggests directions for scholarship that builds on the book and briefly explores the complex situation of domestic service in Cuba in the twenty-first century.
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- Hierarchies at HomeDomestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution, pp. 172 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022