Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the island's transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state. She challenges Cuba's well-established myth of racial equality and s |
Contents
Alter Slavery 18861895 | 23 |
The Fight for a Just Cuba 18951898 | 55 |
The Making of the New Order 18991906 | 91 |
Frustration 18991906 | 117 |
Mobilization 19071910 | 141 |
Rumors of a Black Conspiracy 19071911 | 161 |
The Racist Massacre of 1912 | 193 |
The Limits of Equality | 227 |
Notes | 249 |
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accused African Afro Afro-Cubans Antonio Maceo April armed protest arrested August Autonomist Batrell Beaupré to secretary Biografía brujería brujos Camagüey Causa Cuba Libre Cuba's Cuban society culture December Día Diario Directorio Discusión elite entry Estrada Palma fear February García Guantánamo guerra Haitian Havana ibid Igualdad immigration Imprenta independence Independiente de Color insurgents Ivonnet José Maceo José Martí José Miguel Gómez Juan Gualberto Gómez July June labor leaders Liberation Army Lucha Martí Matanzas miguelista Miró mobilization Morúa Morúa's amendment movement mulattoes Mundo ñáñigos negro newspapers November organized Oriente Ortiz participation Partido Independiente party Pérez pieza Pinar del Río Platt Amendment política political President Gómez Previsión province race racial equality racism raza de color rebels repression revolution rumors rural guard Santa Clara santería Santiago de Cuba separatist September slavery slaves social sociedades de color Spain Spanish struggle tion United veterans white Cubans
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Page 11 - The operating assumption of the "right to subsistence" is that all members of a community have a presumptive right to a living so far as local resources will allow. This subsistence claim is morally based on the common notion of a hierarchy of human needs, with the means for physical survival naturally taking priority over all other claims to village wealth. In a purely logical sense, it is difficult to imagine how any disparities in wealth and resources...
Page 3 - Such classification differs from the three-tier or multitier racial systems prevailing in many countries of the region4 and tends to show a two-tier racial system similar to that of the United States — with a significant difference, however: in Cuba, the line separating blacks and mulattoes from whites was based on "visible" African ancestry, not on the "one drop rule.
Page 17 - rests on the ability to contain blacks in the present, to repress and to deny the past...