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One way or another: Erotic subjectivity in Cuba
Article first published online: 8 MAY 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01367.x
© 2012 by the American Anthropological Association
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Allen, J. (2012), One way or another: Erotic subjectivity in Cuba. American Ethnologist, 39: 325–338. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01367.x
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ABSTRACT
Intervening at the nexus of queer anthropology, black resistance, and Latin American and Caribbean culture and politics, I examine sites, modalities, and limits of “erotic subjectivity” during Cuba's Special Period in Time of Peace (Período Especial en Tiempo de Paz)—the economic crisis of the 1990s. I trace how nonheteronormative black Cubans have been reinventing ways to participate, officially and unofficially, in a number of fraught, uneven exchanges on the ground. I aim to outline a genealogy of the political possibilities for nonheteronormative black Cubans. [queer, black, Cuba, subjectivity, gender]