Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth Century Cuba : A Study of Racial Attitudes and Sexual Values in a Slave Society

Author: Stolcke, Verena, Martinez-Alier, Verena

General & world history

Published on 23 June 1989 by The University of Michigan Press in the United States as part of 'the Women and Culture Series' series.

Paperback / softback | 224 pages, 20 tables
214 x 138 | 295g

Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba challenges conventional ideas about the roots of Cuban race relations. Verena Martinez-Alier proposes a relational model for the study of sexual values and social inequality. She deals with Cuban notions of honor and virtue while describing complex interconnections between class and perceived racial status that determined the choice of sexual and marriage partners. First published in 1974, Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba is now a classic, a pathbreaking encounter of anthropology with history that points the way for future investigations. With this edition, the work of this pioneering scholar is made available again, with a new introduction by the author.