{"id":62955,"date":"2022-02-02T17:55:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62955"},"modified":"2022-02-02T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:55:13","slug":"asi-son-los-cubanos-narratives-of-race-and-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62955","title":{"rendered":"As\u00ed son los cubanos: narratives of race and ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2020.1823447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>As\u00ed son los cubanos<\/strong><em><strong>: narratives of race and ancestry<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/journals\/rers20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/44\/11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 44, 2021 &#8211; Issue 11<\/a><br \/>\npages 2135-2153<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2020.1823447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/01419870.2020.1823447<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elizabeth-obreg%C3%B3n-317bba55\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elizabeth Obreg\u00f3n<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of Illinois, Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2020.1823447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/action\/showCoverImage?doi=10.1080\/rers20.v044.i11\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This paper will focus on the ways in which conceptualizations of race are (re)produced through Cuban genealogical narratives in Western <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuba<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethnography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethnographic<\/a> interviews collected among eleven Cubans in Havana were collected during summer 2017 and are described here. My ethnographic data argue that despite Cuba\u2019s colourblind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial democracy<\/a> \u2013 where race \u201cdoes not matter\u201d because all races are \u201ctreated equally\u201d \u2013 the familial narratives of ancestry actively reinforce the complex racial landscape and illustrates the superiority of whiteness that belie this ideal. These same family narratives ultimately highlight the various ways interlocutors negotiate racial self-identities and narrate family ancestry across lingering gendered and racial hierarchies.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2020.1823447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ethnographic data argue that despite Cuba\u2019s colourblind racial democracy \u2013 where race \u201cdoes not matter\u201d because all races are \u201ctreated equally\u201d \u2013 the familial narratives of ancestry actively reinforce the complex racial landscape and illustrates the superiority of whiteness that belie this ideal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,459,1196,8],"tags":[32113,461,25521],"class_list":["post-62955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-elizabeth-obregon","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-havana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62955","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=62955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62956,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62955\/revisions\/62956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}