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iVenceremos? de Jafari Sinclaire Allen

iVenceremos?

Autor Jafari Sinclaire Allen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 aug 2011

În volumul iVenceremos?, Jafari Sinclaire Allen propune o analiză riguroasă a modului în care identitățile marginalizate din Cuba negociază spațiul dintre promisiunile ideologice ale statului și realitățile economice dure ale secolului XXI. Aplicabilitatea practică a acestei etnografii rezidă în capacitatea de a descifra mecanismele prin care cetățenii de culoare și minoritățile sexuale își construiesc autonomia în afara structurilor oficiale, folosind ceea ce autorul numește „erotic self-making”. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Allen transformă observația participativă în instrument de analiză politică, documentând reziliența prin ritualuri Santeria, cultura hip-hop și rețele de prietenie.

Structura cărții este concepută progresiv, pornind de la deconstrucția discursului oficial despre absența rasismului în capitolele introductive, către o explorare intimă a politicilor dorinței în capitolele centrale. Finalul, marcat de capitolul despre schimbare socială („¡Hagamos un Chen!”), oferă o perspectivă pragmatică asupra activismului contemporan. Comparabil cu Cuban Underground Hip Hop de Tanya L. Saunders în ceea ce privește rigoarea analizei subculturilor urbane, volumul de față se distinge prin accentul pus pe dimensiunea corporală și afectivă a cetățeniei, fiind actualizat pentru a reflecta impactul capitalului global asupra structurii sociale cubaneze.

Poziționată în continuarea preocupărilor autorului din There's a Disco Ball Between Us, lucrarea rafinează conceptul de subiectivitate de culoare, mutând însă focusul de la activismul lesbian din anii '80 spre complexitatea contemporană a Havanei. Jafari Sinclaire Allen reușește să facă vizibile acele identități care rămân adesea ilizibile pentru funcționarii statului, oferind un studiu esențial pentru înțelegerea Cubei dincolo de afișele propagandistice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822349501
ISBN-10: 0822349507
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 2 photographs
Dimensiuni: 155 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor în sociologie și antropologie care doresc să înțeleagă dinamica rasială și sexuală în statele socialiste aflate în tranziție. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care individul își poate păstra demnitatea și autonomia prin gesturi cotidiene, într-un sistem care îi ignoră identitatea multiplă. Este un instrument teoretic prețios pentru analiza intersecționalității în contexte non-occidentale.

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Promoting the revolutionary socialist project of equality and dignity for all, the slogan !Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears throughout Cuba, everywhere from newspapers to schools murals to nightclubs. Yet the accomplishments of the Cuban state are belied by the stark inequalities apparent in the marginalization of blacks, the prejudice against sexual minorities, and the devaluation of women. !Venceremos? is a groundbreaking ethnography on race, desire, and belonging among black Cubans in the early twenty-first-century, as the nation opens its economy to global capital. Expanding on Audre Lorde’s vision of embodied, even “useful,” desire, Jafari S. Allen shows how black Cubans engage in acts of “erotic self-making,” reinterpreting, transgressing, and potentially transforming racialized and sexualized interpellations of their identities. He illuminates intimate spaces of autonomy created by people whose multiply subaltern identities have rendered them illegible to state functionaries, and to most scholars. In everyday practices, events, and sites in Havana and Santiago de Cuba--including Santeria rituals, gay men’s parties, hip hop concerts, the tourist-oriented sex trade, lesbian organizing, HIV education, and just hanging out--Allen highlights small but significant acts in struggles for autonomy and dignity.

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Invoking “A larger freedom”; 1. Looking (at) “Afro-Cuba(n)”; 2. Discursive Sleight of Hand: Race, Sex, Gender; 3: The Erotics and Politics of Self-Making; 4. De Cierta Manera . . . Hasta Cierto Punto (One Way or Another . . . Up to a Certain Point); 5. Friendship as a Mode of Survival; 6. ¡Hagamos un Chen! (We Make Change!); Coda: ¡Vamos a Vencer! (We Will Win!)Notes; References; Index

Recenzii

“[T]he brilliance of ¡Venceremos? Is that it so powerfully presents the lived — and rapidly changing — realities of individual Afro-Cuban subjects. . . . ¡Venceremos? Is an engrossing, important piece of scholarship that constructively bridges multiple disciplines and should be of interest to readers both inside and outside the academy.”—Lauren J. Gantz, GLQ

“In this ambitious ethnography Allen tackles some of the most complicated but compelling issues in contemporary Cuba…. The book makes an important theoretical contribution to advancing debates on these issues…. ¡Venceremos? Leaves us with the question, “Will we overcome?” but Allen has certainly moved us closer to an answer with this artful ethnography.”—Nadine T. Fernandez, Journal of Anthropological Research

“Jafari Allen’s new ethnography provides a timely consideration of desires for freedom and possibilities for social equality under the Cuban Revolution…. His is an important intervention for Cubanists, Caribbeanists, and all those interested in understanding the nexus of desire and liberation in processes of racialization, gendering, and sexuality.”—Kristina Wirtz, American Ethnologist

“A subtle ethnography that looks at the intersection of sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba through deeply felt experiences and stories. Honoring Audre Lorde’s assertation that ‘the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,’ Jafari S. Allen offers major new insights into the meaning of black sexual liberation in a rapidly changing revolutionary society.” Ruth Behar, author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba

“This extremely engaging and original ethnography portrays the dreams, political aspirations, cultural politics, and intimate practices of black Cubans in a rapidly changing socialist society. Jafari S. Allen carefully parses the particularities of black Cuban self-making through a magnificently layered account of Cuba’s history and culture and a very queer account of Cuban intimacies--in the home and the street, between men, between women, and between men and women. His careful attention to the socialist context for queer desire in Cuba leads him to insist on an understanding of queer identity that departs from the Euro-American preoccupation with the individual in its focus on communal bonds and modes of belonging. ¡Venceremos? Conveys hope for the transformative potential of collective forms of self-making and the various ways that people desire, resist, create, and imagine.”--Judith Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure

“¡Venceremos? is an important and engaging book. Jafari S. Allen uses critical ethnography to reveal a changing landscape of race, gender, sex, and nation in Cuba today. The evolving meanings of these categories are propelled by people’s everyday actions toward what Allen calls a larger freedom. It is through his examination of ‘the everyday,’ especially the erotic, that the reader is made to see the creative tension between state-imposed and lived understandings of race, sex, and gender.”--Cathy J. Cohen, author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics


"[T]he brilliance of !Venceremos? Is that it so powerfully presents the lived - and rapidly changing - realities of individual Afro-Cuban subjects... !Venceremos? Is an engrossing, important piece of scholarship that constructively bridges multiple disciplines and should be of interest to readers both inside and outside the academy." - Lauren J. Gantz, GLQ "In this ambitious ethnography Allen tackles some of the most complicated but compelling issues in contemporary Cuba... The book makes an important theoretical contribution to advancing debates on these issues... !Venceremos? Leaves us with the question, "Will we overcome?" but Allen has certainly moved us closer to an answer with this artful ethnography." - Nadine T. Fernandez, Journal of Anthropological Research "Jafari Allen's new ethnography... provides a timely consideration of desires for freedom and possibilities for social equality under the Cuban Revolution... His is an important intervention for Cubanists, Caribbeanists, and all those interested in understanding the nexus of desire and liberation in processes of racialization, gendering, and sexuality." - Kristina Wirtz, American Ethnologist "A subtle ethnography that looks at the intersection of sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba through deeply felt experiences and stories. Honoring Audre Lorde's assertation that 'the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house,' Jafari S. Allen offers major new insights into the meaning of black sexual liberation in a rapidly changing revolutionary society." Ruth Behar, author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba "This extremely engaging and original ethnography portrays the dreams, political aspirations, cultural politics, and intimate practices of black Cubans in a rapidly changing socialist society. Jafari S. Allen carefully parses the particularities of black Cuban self-making through a magnificently layered account of Cuba's history and culture and a very queer account of Cuban intimacies--in the home and the street, between men, between women, and between men and women. His careful attention to the socialist context for queer desire in Cuba leads him to insist on an understanding of queer identity that departs from the Euro-American preoccupation with the individual in its focus on communal bonds and modes of belonging. !Venceremos? Conveys hope for the transformative potential of collective forms of self-making and the various ways that people desire, resist, create, and imagine."--Judith Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure "!Venceremos? is an important and engaging book. Jafari S. Allen uses critical ethnography to reveal a changing landscape of race, gender, sex, and nation in Cuba today. The evolving meanings of these categories are propelled by people's everyday actions toward what Allen calls a larger freedom. It is through his examination of 'the everyday,' especially the erotic, that the reader is made to see the creative tension between state-imposed and lived understandings of race, sex, and gender."--Cathy J. Cohen, author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics