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Perverse Modernities

Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba

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An ethnography of sexual identity formation in contemporary Cuba.

256 pages, ebook

First published July 22, 2011

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Jafari S. Allen

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Jafari S. Allen is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Global Black Studies at the University of Miami and author of ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba, published by Duke University Press.

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March 6, 2013
An absolute must read for those interested in ethnography,Diaspora, and post modernism.
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April 7, 2019
I don't agree with everything in this book, and the writing can be clunky at times (most sentences could be streamlined, although you won't realize this unless you actively think about it), but it reads well and doesn't pull punches (even if I disagree with some of the punches). Allen says what he wants to say with none of the unnecessary pretense so common to academic writing.
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July 26, 2016
Great ethnographic study of, well, what the title says.
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