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Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957

Study explores Cuban racial and sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examines Afro-Cuban activism, politics, intellectual and cultural production.

American Studies, History, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Publisher: New York University Press, 2017.

"Suspect Freedoms" chronicles more than a hundred years of Cuban diasporic history in New York. One of the few studies to examine the early history of Afro-Cuban migration and politics, it employs a rich cache of primary sources, archival documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs, and oral histories to produce what Michel Rolph Trouillot calls an "unthinkable history."

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