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Hierarchies at Home provides a comprehensive analysis of domestic service in Cuba during a transformative historical period. From the abolition of slavery in 1886 to the Cuban Revolution of 1959, domestic workers navigated complex social hierarchies within private households while broader Cuban society underwent significant political and economic changes.
Anasa Hicks examines how race, gender, and class intersected to define the experiences of domestic servants, particularly Afro-Cuban women. The book reveals how intimate domestic spaces reflected and reinforced larger patterns of inequality and racial discrimination in Cuban society. Through careful historical research, Hicks demonstrates that domestic service was not merely an economic arrangement but a site of cultural negotiation and resistance.
This work contributes to Afro-Latin American studies by centering the voices and experiences of marginalized domestic workers whose labor was essential to Cuban households yet often invisible in historical accounts. The study illuminates how personal relationships within homes connected to national transformations during Cuba’s path to revolution.
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