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By Jafari S. Allen

Promoting the innovative socialist venture of equality and dignity for all, the slogan ¡Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears to be like all through Cuba, all over the place from newspapers to college work of art to nightclubs. but the accomplishments of the Cuban country are belied by means of the marginalization of blacks, the unfairness opposed to sexual minorities, and gender inequities. ¡Venceremos? is a groundbreaking ethnography on race, hope, and belonging between blacks in early-twenty-first-century Cuba, because the country opens its economic system to international capital. increasing on Audre Lorde’s imaginative and prescient of embodied, even “useful,” hope, Jafari S. Allen indicates how black Cubans interact in acts of “erotic self-making,” reinterpreting, transgressing, and very likely remodeling racialized and sexualized interpellations in their identities. He illuminates intimate areas of autonomy created through humans whose multiply subaltern identities have rendered them illegible to nation functionaries, and to so much students. In daily practices in Havana and Santiago de Cuba—including Santeria rituals, homosexual men’s events, hip hop concert events, the tourist-oriented intercourse exchange, lesbian organizing, HIV schooling, and simply putting out—Allen highlights small yet major acts of fight for autonomy and dignity.

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