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First Name
Takkara
Last Name
Brunson
Affiliation
California State University, Fresno
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Keywords
Women, gender, Black women, Cuba, Latin America, Caribbean, African Diaspora, political traditions, visual culture, history of feminism
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Recent Publications

Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba (forthcoming May 2021 with the University Press of Florida).

“Women, Gender, and the Partido Independiente de Color.” In Breaking the Chains, Making the Nation: The Black Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912. Eds. Fannie T. Rushing and Aisha Finch, 272-288 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019).

“‘In the general interest of all conscious women’: Race, Class, and the Cuban Women’s Movement, 1923-1939.” Cuban Studies 46(2018): 159-182.

“Eusebia Cosme and Black Womanhood on the Transatlantic Stage.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism Vol. 15, No. 2 (2017): 389-411.

“‘Writing’ Black Womanhood in the Early Cuban Republic, 1904-1916.” Gender and History Vol. 28, Issue 2 (August 2016): 480-500.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
Atlantic, Caribbean, Latin America
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Emancipation, Gender, Labor, Politics, Race, Women