Cuban Color in Tourism and la Lucha : An Ethnography of Racial Meaning
ISBN: 9780199739660 | 0199739668
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 9/1/2010
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Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha : An Ethnography of Racial Meanings offers a provocative look at what it means to belong in modern socialist Cuba. Drawn from her extensive travels throughout Cuba over the past decade, author L. Kaifa Roland pulls back the curtain on a country that has remained mysterious to Americans since the mid-twentieth century. Through vivid vignettes and firsthand details, Roland exposes the lasting effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent rise of state-sponsored segregated tourism in Cuba. She d... MORE
| Preface | p. ix |
| Race, Tourism, and Belonging in Cuba | p. 1 |
| Welcome to Cuba | p. 2 |
| The Meaning(s) of "Race" | p. 4 |
| Tourism and the Caribbean | p. 8 |
| Socialism and Cuba's Revolutionary Ideal | p. 11 |
| Post-socialist Globalization | p. 13 |
| Methodology | p. 15 |
| "Blackness" and Race Matters in Cuba | p. 20 |
| Raciality in Cuba | p. ... MORE |
| Race and the Revolution | p. 31 |
| From Black(ness) to White(ned) | p. 33 |
| Gendered Race/Raced Gender | p. 37 |
| Conclusion | p. 41 |
| Surviving through La Lucha | p. 44 |
| La Lucha | p. 46 |
| Jineteros (Hustlers) | p. 52 |
| Marrying the Other | p. 57 |
| Conclusion | p. 62 |
| Tourism and Belonging | p. 64 |
| Who Tours Cuba? | p. 66 |
| Privilege and Place | p. 67 |
| Power and Belonging | p. 75 |
| The Yuma/Jinetero Dynamic | p. 77 |
| Conclusion | p. 83 |
| Of Shorts and Segregated Socialism | p. 87 |
| Separate and Unequal | p. 89 |
| Transition or Transformation? | p. 91 |
| Conclusion | p. 93 |
| Epilogue: Where Are They Now? | p. 96 |
| From Jineteros to Perros Callejeros | p. 97 |
| Yumas Out, Pepes In | p. 99 |
| Raul Castro and Change | p. 99 |
| Timeline of Cuban History | p. 102 |
| Student Resource Guide | p. 105 |
| Glossary of Key Terms | p. 109 |
| Glossary of Key Spanish/Cuban Terms | p. 115 |
| Bibliography | p. 117 |
| Index | p. 125 |
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L. Kaifa Roland is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research is in the areas of cultural anthropology with specific interests in tourism, national identity, racial and gender constructions, popular cultural practices, and critiques of capitalism. She has conducted extensive field research in Cuba, with a regional focus on the Caribbean and the broader African Diaspora.
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