Anasa Hicks is Assistant Professor of History at Florida State University. She specializes in Latin American and Caribbean history, focusing on twentieth-century Cuba, the Hispanic Caribbean, women and gender, and labor studies.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: Violent intimacies: Constructions of nation, race, and gender inside Cuban households; 1. Embodied anxieties: Hygiene, honor, and domestic service in republican Cuba; 2. Of domestic (and other) offices: Black Cubans' claims after independence; 3. Stopping 'Creole Bolshevism'; Liberal correctives to increasing labor radicalism; 4. Patio fascists and domestic worker syndicates: Communism, constitutions, and the push for labor organization; 5. Pushing the present into the past: The revolution's solution to domestic service in the 1960s; 6. Conjuring ghosts: Domestic service's remains after 1959; Conclusion: Revisiting a racial democracy: Cuban history from inside out.