{"id":10594,"date":"2010-12-07T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10594"},"modified":"2014-10-01T17:24:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:24:52","slug":"social-status-race-and-the-timing-of-marriage-in-cuba%e2%80%99s-first-constitutional-era-1902-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10594","title":{"rendered":"Social Status, Race, and the Timing of Marriage in Cuba\u2019s First Constitutional Era, 1902-1940"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0363199010389546\" target=\"_blank\">Social Status, Race, and the Timing of Marriage in Cuba\u2019s First Constitutional Era, 1902-1940<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jfh.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Family History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jfh.sagepub.com\/content\/36\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 36, Number 1<\/a> (December 2010)<br \/>\npages 52-71<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0363199010389546\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0363199010389546<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.umn.edu\/people\/logan_e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Enid Lynette Logan<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Minnesota, Minneapolis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article examines the practice of marriage among whites, mestizos, blacks, Cubans, and Spaniards during the first constitutional era, focusing upon the reported ages of brides and grooms. The study consists of a quantitative examination of trends found in the records of 900 Catholic marriages celebrated in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Havana\" target=\"_blank\">Havana<\/a> during the opening decades of independence. The first major finding of the research is that according to most major indicators of status, age was negatively correlated with rank. Thus, contrary to the conclusions of studies conducted in many other contexts, those in the highest strata of society married younger. <strong>Furthermore, very significant differences were detected in the marital patterns of those identified as mixed-race and those labeled as black. This finding offers empirical weight to the notion that the early-mid twentieth-century <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cuban<\/strong><\/a><strong> racial structure would best be characterized as tripartite, rather than binary in nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/jfh.sagepub.com\/content\/36\/1\/52.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Status, Race, and the Timing of Marriage in Cuba\u2019s First Constitutional Era, 1902-1940 Journal of Family History Volume 36, Number 1 (December 2010) pages 52-71 DOI: 10.1177\/0363199010389546 Enid Lynette Logan, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis This article examines the practice of marriage among whites, mestizos, blacks, Cubans, and Spaniards during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,33,459,8,394],"tags":[673,4656,3197,4655,4657,259],"class_list":["post-10594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-census","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-cuba","tag-enid-l-logan","tag-enid-logan","tag-enid-lynette-logan","tag-journal-of-family-history","tag-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}