Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940

by Alejandra Bronfman

Book Overview

In the years following Cuba's independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet 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 by exploring the responses of social scientists, such as Fernando Ortiz and Israel Castellanos, and black...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855634
• ISBN13: 9780807855638
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"