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Hierarchies at home : domestic service in Cuba from abolition to revolution
- Title
- Hierarchies at home : domestic service in Cuba from abolition to revolution / Anasa Hicks, Florida State University.
- Author
- Hicks, Anasa, 1989-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- xviii, 202 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Hierarchies at Home traces the experiences of Cuban domestic workers from the abolition of slavery through the 1959 revolution. Domestic service - childcare, cleaning, chauffeuring for private homes - was both ubiquitous and ignored as formal labor in Cuba, a phenomenon made possible because of who supposedly performed it. In Cuban imaginary, domestic workers were almost always Black women and their supposed prevalence in domestic service perpetuated the myth of racial harmony. African-descended domestic workers were "like one of the family," just as enslaved Cubans had supposedly been part of the families who owned them before slavery's abolition. This fascinating work challenges this myth, revealing how domestic workers consistently rejected their invisibility throughout the twentieth century. By following a group marginalized by racialized and gendered assumptions, Anasa Hicks destabilizes traditional analyses in Cuban history, instead offering a continuous narrative that connects pre- and post-revolutionary Cuba"--
- Series Statement
- Afro-Latin America.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-1482
- ISBN
- 9781316513651
- 1316513653
- 9781009074513
- 1009074512
- 9781009070577 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781009083935 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021063039
- OCLC
- 1292589032
- Author
- Hicks, Anasa, 1989- author.
- Title
- Hierarchies at home : domestic service in Cuba from abolition to revolution / Anasa Hicks, Florida State University.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Afro-Latin America.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY. FOCUSES ON BLACK FEMALE LABOR.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1895
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-1482