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From Cuba to Ybor City: Race, Revolution, Nationalism and Afro-Cuban Identity

Becker, Elizabeth Claire
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1364315042

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2013, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, History.
This research project explores race, nationalism, and Afro-Cuban identity in the small Florida ethnic enclave of Ybor City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It also examines slavery, race, and revolution in nineteenth-century Cuba. The study reveals how Cuban ethnicity and patriotic solidarity ultimately trumped racial divisiveness in the Ybor City. Although the Jim Crow Laws deeply penetrated all levels of society in the U.S. South, black and white Cubans coexisted within the tiny bubble outside of Tampa during the last few decades of the nineteenth century. Historically, scholars have rarely focused on the voices of Afro-Cubans during this critical time period of Cuba’s nation building project, even though black Cubans contributed substantially to Cuba Libre and the Cuban Liberation army. By illuminating the Afro-Cuban immigrant story amidst the violent times of the Jim Crow South, the Spanish-American War, and their relations with the white Cuban exile community who escaped Spanish persecution leading up to the war, a complex and passionate set of characters are revealed who defined themselves as being Cuban, black, as well as immigrants.
Diane Britton (Advisor)
Lora Ron (Committee Member)
Charles Beatty-Medina (Committee Member)
150 p.
American History

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  • Becker, E. C. (2013). From Cuba to Ybor City: Race, Revolution, Nationalism and Afro-Cuban Identity [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1364315042

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Becker, Elizabeth. From Cuba to Ybor City: Race, Revolution, Nationalism and Afro-Cuban Identity . 2013. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1364315042.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Becker, Elizabeth. "From Cuba to Ybor City: Race, Revolution, Nationalism and Afro-Cuban Identity ." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1364315042

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