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"Creole" Nationalism in Cuba: The Consequences of Race

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The study of nationalism is an unusually promising venue for the testing of social mechanisms approaches to the explanation of social phenomena. In this paper, I attempt to construct a social mechanisms explanation for the unusual reluctance of Cuban elites to join the cause of independence from Spain. Drawing on Benedict Anderson's description of creole nationalism in the new world, the Cuban case seems to defy our expectations, since most of the variables Anderson identifies are represented in the Cuban case, yet creoles did not support the war for independence. My claim is that the historically specific pattern of race relations in Cuba altered the preferences of Cuba's creole elite, and encouraged them to withhold their support for the cause of independence.

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Abstract: The study of nationalism is an unusually promising venue for the testing of social mechanisms approaches to the explanation of social phenomena. In this paper, I attempt to construct a social mechanisms explanation for the unusual reluctance of Cuban elites to join the cause of independence from Spain. Drawing on Benedict Anderson's description of creole nationalism in the new world, the Cuban case seems to defy our expectations, since most of the variables Anderson identifies are represented in the Cuban case, yet creoles did not support the war for independence. My claim is that the historically specific pattern of race relations in Cuba altered the preferences of Cuba's creole elite, and encouraged them to withhold their support for the cause of independence.

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Race and "Creole" Nationalism in Cuba: Historically Contextualizing a Social Mechanisms Approach Steven E. Laymon Columbia University slaymon@columbia.edu Paper prepared for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association Chicago Illinois September 2004 Please do not cite without permission. Race and "Creole" Nationalism in Cuba: Historically Contextualizing a Social Mechanisms Approach Steven E. Laymon Columbia University slaymon@columbia.edu September 2004 CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS The creole nationalism described by Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities which served as a flashpoint for
1999. On Becoming Cuban. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Powell Walter W. and Paul J. DiMaggio eds. 1991. The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Thelen Kathleen. 1998. Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics. Unpublished manuscript. Turnbull David. 1840. Travels in the West: Cuba with Notices of Porto Rico and the Slave Trade. London: Longman Orme Brown Greens and Longman. Wurdemann John George F. 1992 (1844). "Notes on Cuba." In Louis A. Pérez Jr.


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