A Philosophical Journey
An Ethnography of Racial Meaning
$36.63
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2010
Summary
Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meanings offers a provocative look at what it means to belong in modern socialist Cuba. Drawn from her extensive travels throughout Cuba over the past decade, author L. Kaifa Roland pulls back the curtain on a country that has remained mysterious to Americans since the mid-twentieth century. Through vivid vignettes and firsthand details, Roland exposes the lasting effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent rise …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199739660 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199739668 |
| Author: | Roland |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Australia |
| Imprint: | OUP Australia and New Zealand |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2010 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 137mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology (Paperback) |
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Roland
L. Kaifa Roland is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research is in the area of cultural anthropology with specific interests in tourism, national identity, racial and gender constructions, popular cultural practices, and critiques of capitalism. She has conducted extensive field research in Cuba, with a regional focus on the Caribbean and the broader African Diaspora.
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