Open AccessRasa czarna a tożsamość kubańska
Author(s) -
Anna Kaganiec–Kamienska
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
politeja
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2391-6737
pISSN - 1733-6716
DOI - 10.12797/politeja.14.2017.49.20
Subject(s) - identity (music) , elite , national identity , race (biology) , gender studies , political science , period (music) , point (geometry) , sociology , aesthetics , law , art , politics , geometry , mathematics
Afro-Cubans in the shaping of the Cuban identity
Many historians point to an important role of race in the shaping of the Cuban identity and culture. Taking as a starting point the view that national identity is dynamic and negotiable, i.e. influenced by the elite’s ‘national project’ and negotiated from below, the article focuses on the role of Afro-Cubans in the formation of Cuban identity until 1959, especially on the period 1898-1940. This article looks at the concept of lo cubano as understood by the Cuban elites as well as the way in which Afro-Cubans actively negotiated their place in the Cuban society.