| Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 Subjects: Cubans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century; Cubans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Exiles -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Cubans -- New Y; 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 of Cubanidad, a shared sense of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of slavery, freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the question of what and who constituted "being Cuban" remained in flux and often, suspect. Nancy Raquel Mirabal is Associate Professor of American Studies and the Director of the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Mirabal is the author of Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957; first editor of Technofuturos: Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies and co-editor of Keywords for Latina/o Studies . Her publications have appeared in the Latino Studies Journal, The Public Historian, Cultural Dynamics , and Callaloo . |