Full Description
In Contested Community, the authors analyze the Chinese immigrant community in Cuba between the years 1900-1968. While popular literature of the era portrayed the diasporic group as a closed, inassimilable ethnic enclave, closer inspection instead reveals numerous economic, political, and ethnic divisions. As with all organizations, asymmetrical power relations permeated Havana's Barrio Chino and the larger Chinese Cuban community. The authors of Contested Community use difficult-to-access materials from Cuba's national archive to offer a unique and insightful interpretation of a little-understood immigrant group.
Contents
Map of Cuba frontispiece
Acknowledgments ix
List of Figures and Tables xi
List of Images xiii
Note on Names and Romanization xv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Capitalist Expansion, Republican Legislation, and Chinese
Immigration 17
Chapter 2 Commercial Relations in the Chinese Community of Havana 36
Chapter 3 Chinese Institutions in Havana: Community and Ethnic Identity 59
Chapter 4 Alternatives to the Monopoly of Ethnic Identity: The Forgotten
Chinese 87
Chapter 5 Economic Crisis and World War: Group Protection and Integration
Strategies, 1931-1949 111
Chapter 6 Between Two Revolutions: The Politics and Economics of the Chinese
Community, 1949-1959 145
Chapter 7 Political Crisis and Institutional Change: The Cuban Revolution in the
Chinese Community of Havana, 1959-1968 160
Conclusion 171
Appendix: Timeline of the Chinese in Cuba (1900-1968) 177
Bibliography 197
Index 210
