Les AA. explorent la definition et le sens meme de diaspora en tant que concept. Une grande part des debats actuels continue a suggerer que la diaspora est tout simplement une manifestation logique de la dispersion, qu'importe comment cette diaspora a ete creee ou depuis combien de temps elle existe. Les AA. tentent de demontrer que les relations qui lient la diaspora doivent s'articuler et ne sont pas inevitables, et que la diaspora est a la fois processus et condition. En tant que processus, elle est en permanence en cours de formation, et en tant que condition, elle se situe a l'interieur des hierarchies globales de race et de sexe (ou de genre). Cependant, tout comme la diaspora est faite, elle peut etre defaite et les chercheurs doivent ainsi examiner les moments de son demantelement. En effet, les efforts faits pour discerner les elements constitutifs de la ou des diasporas soulevent des questions importantes sur la facon dont l'Afrique est conceptualisee relativement a sa diaspora. Ces efforts mettent egalement en evidence la necessite d'examiner la superposition et l'intersection de diasporas issues de localisations historiques multiples.

Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and the Making of the Modern World

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Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution

Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. The argument: mosquito determinism and its limits 2. Atlantic empires and Caribbean ecology 3. Deadly fevers, deadly doctors Part II. Imperial Mosquitoes: 4. From Recife to Kourou: yellow fever takes hold, 1620-1764 5. Cartagena and Havana: yellow fever rampant Part III. Revolutionary Mosquitoes: 6. Lord Cornwallis vs anopheles quadrimaculatus, 1780-1 7. Revolutionary fevers: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba, 1790-1898 8. Epilogue: vector and virus vanquished.

Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914

In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement. Ada Ferrer examines the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when a slaveholder began the revolution by freeing his slaves, until the intervention of racially segregated American forces in 1898. In so doing, she uncovers the struggles over the boundaries of citizenship and nationality that their participation brought to the fore, and she shows that even as black participation helped sustain the movement ideologically and militarily, it simultaneously prompted accusations of race war and fed the forces of counterinsurgency. Carefully examining the tensions between racism and antiracism contained within Cuban nationalism, Ferrer paints a dynamic portrait of a movement built upon the coexistence of an ideology of racial fraternity and the persistence of presumptions of hierarchy. |Examines the tensions between racism and anti-racism in Cuba's struggle to become a nation between 1868 and 1898.

Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, the French colony of Saint-Domingue was the richest colony in the world. Set in the Caribbean Sea, a short sail from some of the principal American colonies of Britain and Spain, in the 1780s it produced about half of all the sugar and coffee consumed in Europe and the Americas. It was, in the nomenclature of the time, the “Pearl of the Antilles,” the “Eden of the Western World.” It was there, in late August 1791, that the colony’s enslaved rose up, eventually declaring war against the regime of slavery at its seat of most extreme and opulent power. Within a month, the rebel slaves numbered in the tens of thousands, and the property destroyed amounted to more than a thousand sugar and coffee farms. With this event—the largest and best-coordinated slave rebellion the world had ever seen—the enslaved of Saint-Domingue forced the issue of slavery upon the French Revolution and the world. By August 1793, colonial authorities began decreeing abolition, and in February 1794, the National Convention in Paris ended slavery in France’s colonies, in a sense ratifying what enslaved rebels had already made real on the ground in many parts of Saint-Domingue. A decade later, those same rebels declared themselves free not only from slavery, but also from French rule. On January 1, 1804, the independent nation of Haiti was proclaimed—the second independent state in the Western Hemisphere, and the only one ever founded by former slaves and without slavery.1 The Haitian Revolution—the name by which we now know these events—commanded the attention of everyone in the region and beyond. But surely few followed

Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic

Introduction: the Haitian Revolution and Cuban slave society 1. 'A colony worth a kingdom': Cuba's sugar revolution in the shadow of Saint-Domingue 2. 'An excess of communication': the capture of news in a slave society 3. An unlikely alliance: Cuba and the black auxiliaries 4. Revolution's disavowal: Cuba and a counterrevolution of slavery 5. 'Masters of all': echoes of Haitian independence in Cuba 6. Atlantic crucible: 1808 between Haiti and Spain 7. A black kingdom of this world: making history, imagining revolution in Havana, 1812 Epilogue: Haiti, Cuba, and history: afterlives of antislavery and revolution.

Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution

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Ada Ferrer

Papers

Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic

Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution

Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba