{"product_id":"a-cuban-city-segregated","title":"A Cuban City, Segregated","description":"A microhistory of racial segregation in Cienfuegos, a central Cuban port city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Founded as a white colony in 1819, Cienfuegos quickly became home to people of African descent, both free and enslaved, and later a small community of Chinese and other immigrants. Despite the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity defining the city''s population, the urban landscape was characterized by distinctive racial boundaries, separating the white city center from the heterogeneous peripheries. \u003ci\u003eA Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the de facto racial segregation was constructed and perpetuated in a society devoid of explicitly racial laws.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on the insights of intersectional feminism, Bonnie A. Lucero shows that the key to understanding racial segregation in Cuba is recognizing the often unspoken ways specifically classed notions and practices of gender shaped the historical production of race and racial inequality. In the context of nineteenth-century Cienfuegos, gender, race, and class converged in the concept of urban order, a complex and historically contingent nexus of ideas about the appropriate and desired social hierarchy among urban residents, often embodied spatially in particular relationships to the urban landscape.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e As Cienfuegos evolved subtly over time, the internal logic of urban order was driven by the construction and defense of a legible, developed, aesthetically pleasing, and, most importantly, white city center. Local authorities produced policies that reduced access to the city center along class and gendered lines, for example, by imposing expensive building codes on centric lands, criminalizing poor peoples'' leisure activities, regulating prostitution, and quashing organized labor. Although none of these policies mentioned race outright, this new scholarship demonstrates that the policies were instrumental in producing and perpetuating the geographic marginality and discursive erasure of people of color from the historic center of Cienfuegos during its first century of existence.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481599811957,"sku":"9780817320034","price":46.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780817320034.jpg?v=1786089878","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/a-cuban-city-segregated","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}