{"id":3544,"date":"2009-12-01T01:09:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T01:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2011-08-25T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:46:16","slug":"inexacting-whiteness-blanqueamiento-as-a-gender-specific-trope-in-the-nineteenth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3544","title":{"rendered":"Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/cub.2005.0033\" target=\"_blank\">Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/cuban_studies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cuban Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/cuban_studies\/toc\/cub36.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 36, 2005<\/a><br \/>\npages 105-128<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1548-2464<br \/>\nPrint ISSN: 0361-4441<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/cub.2005.0033\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/cub.2005.0033<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hum.utah.edu\/?module=facultyDetails&amp;personId=118\" target=\"_blank\">Gema R. Guevara<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor, Languages &amp; Literature and Associate Professor, Spanish Section<br \/>\n<em>University of Utah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Cuba, race, nation, and popular music were inextricably linked to the earliest formulations of a national identity. This article examines how the racialized discourse of <em>blanqueamiento<\/em>, or whitening, became part of a nineteenth-century literary narrative in which the <em>casi blanca mulata<\/em>, nearly white <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatta<\/a>, was seen as a vehicle for whitening black Cubans. However, as the novels of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cirilo_Villaverde\" target=\"_blank\">Cirilo Villaverde<\/a> and Ram\u00f3n Meza reveal, the mulata&#8217;s inability to produce entirely white children established the ultimate unattainability of whiteness by nonwhites. This article analyzes the fluidity of these racial constructs and demonstrates that, while these literary texts advocated the lightening of the nation&#8217;s complexion over time, they also mapped the progressive &#8220;darkening&#8221; of Cuban music as popular culture continued to borrow from black music.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.pitt.edu\/htmlSourceFiles\/pdfs\/0822942739exr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century Cuban Studies Volume 36, 2005 pages 105-128 E-ISSN: 1548-2464 Print ISSN: 0361-4441 DOI: 10.1353\/cub.2005.0033 Gema R. Guevara, Associate Professor, Languages &amp; Literature and Associate Professor, Spanish Section University of Utah In Cuba, race, nation, and popular music were inextricably linked to the earliest formulations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,1196,8,394,25],"tags":[484,673,1382,1381,1380,1383],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-women","tag-cirilo-villaverde","tag-cuba","tag-cuban-studies","tag-gema-guevara","tag-gema-r-guevara","tag-ramon-meza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544","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=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}