Tag: Alejandra Bronfman

  • Kathleen López: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History New Books in Latin American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of Latin America about Their New Books 2014-11-21 Alejandra Bronfman, Associate Professor of History University of British Columbia, Canada Successive waves of migration brought thousands of Chinese laborers to Cuba over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The coolie trade,…

  • Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940 University of North Carolina Press November 2003 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 8 illus., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5563-8 Alejandra Bronfman, Professor of History University of British Columbia In the years following Cuba’s independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to…