Contested Community: Identities, Spaces, and Hierarchies of the Chinese in the Cuban Republic: 11 (Chinese Overseas, 11) - Hardcover

Miriam Herrera Jerez; Mario Castillo Santana; David L. Kenley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004339132 ISBN 13: 9789004339132

Publisher: BRILL, 2017

Synopsis

Contested Community analyzes the Chinese immigrant community in Cuba between the years 19001968, highlighting the asymmetrical power relations that permeated its economic, political, and ethnic structures.

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About the Author

Miriam Herrera Jerez, MA, Instituto Juan Marinello, Universidad de Murcia, is a researcher at the Department of Cultural Heritage, Mayabeque Province, Cuba. The recipient of numerous research awards, she has several publications on the Chinese community. Mario Castillo Santana, MA, University of Havana, is a researcher at the Cuban Institute of Anthropology. In addition to his work on Chinese migration to Cuba, he has also published on such topics as Afro-Cuban identity and Argentine social activism. David L. Kenley, PhD, University of Hawaii, is Professor of Chinese History at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of New Culture in a New World (Routledge 2003) and several other works dealing with Chinese migration and identity. Charla Neuroth Lorenzen, PhD, University of Texas-Austin, is Associate Professor of Spanish at Elizabethtown College where she coordinates the Spanish Education program and conducts research on fostering multiliteracy in linguistically diverse classrooms.

Edition details

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004339132
• ISBN 13: 9789004339132
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200