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Racial Migrations

New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

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Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945

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The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their homelands

In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society in Greenwich Village, these early Afro-Latino New Yorkers taught themselves to be poets, journalists, and revolutionaries. At the same time, these individuals—including Rafael Serra, a cigar maker, writer, and politician; Sotero Figueroa, a typesetter, editor, and publisher; and Gertrudis Heredia, one of the first women of African descent to study midwifery at the University of Havana—built a political network and articulated an ideal of revolutionary nationalism centered on the projects of racial and social justice. These efforts were critical to the poet and diplomat José Martí’s writings about race and his bid for leadership among Cuban exiles, and to the later struggle to create space for black political participation in the Cuban Republic.

In Racial Migrations, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof presents a vivid portrait of these largely forgotten migrant revolutionaries, weaving together their experiences of migrating while black, their relationships with African American civil rights leaders, and their evolving participation in nationalist political movements. By placing Afro-Latino New Yorkers at the center of the story, Hoffnung-Garskof offers a new interpretation of the revolutionary politics of the Spanish Caribbean, including the idea that Cuba could become a nation without racial divisions.

A model of transnational and comparative research, Racial Migrations reveals the complexities of race-making within migrant communities and the power of small groups of immigrants to transform their home societies.

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Duke University, Politician, Newspaper, Citizenship, Racial segregation, Publishing, Activism, White people, Political party, Cuban exile, Naturalization, Immigration, Insurgency, Charles L. Reason, Demagogue, Color line (civil rights issue), Mulatto, The New York Times, Despotism, Racial politics, Tax, Politics, Birth certificate, Schomburg, Writing, My Father, Comrade, Universal manhood suffrage, African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Institution, Abolitionism, Slavery, Suffrage, African diaspora, Warfare, Civil and political rights, Supporter, University of California, Los Angeles, Aristocracy, Separatism, Ten Years' War, Enrique, Annexation, President of Cuba, Gertrudis, Cubans, Greenwich Village, Voting, Syracuse University, Black people, Typography, Racism, Latin America, Racial equality, Citizenship of the United States, Spaniards, The Newspaper, Yale University, Working class, Publication, Patriotism, Social class, Narrative, Afro-Cuban, Social status, The Other Hand, Bonilla, Public sphere, Prejudice