num_pages: 302
description: How and why has Cuba's national identity been cast in terms of a cross-cultural synthesis called mestizaje, and what roles have race, gender, sexuality, and class played in the construction of that synthesis? What specific cultural, political, and economic interests does mestizaje represent? Exploring these and other questions, Vera Kutzinski focuses on images of the mulata in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Cuban poetry, fiction, and visual arts. These images, she argues, are at the heart of Cuba's peculiar form of multiculturalism.
language: English
title: Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism
titlecomplete: Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism (New World Studies)
genres: Race, History
ratings_count: 4
publisher: University of Virginia Press