Contested Community: Identities, Spaces, and Hierarchies of the Chinese in the Cuban Republic

by Mario Castillo Santana and Miriam Herrera Jerez

In Contested Community, the authors analyze the Chinese immigrant community in Cuba between the years 1900-1968. While popular literature of the era portrayed the diasporic group as a closed, inassimilable ethnic enclave, closer inspection instead reveals numerous economic, political, and ethnic divisions. As with all organizations, asymmetrical power relations permeated Havana's Barrio Chino and the larger Chinese Cuban community. The authors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004339132
• ISBN13: 9789004339132
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"