Suspect Freedoms : : The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 / / Nancy Raquel Mirabal.
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept o...
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