{"product_id":"9781683404767","title":"Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba","description":"\u003cp\u003eExamining the educational legacy of Afro-Cuban teachers and activists   In  this book, Raquel Otheguy argues that Afro-descended teachers and  activists were central to the development of a national education system  in Cuba. Tracing the emergence of a Black Cuban educational tradition  whose hallmarks were at the forefront of transatlantic educational  currents, Otheguy examines how this movement pushed the island's public  school system to be more accessible to children and adults of all races,  genders, and classes.   Otheguy describes Afro-Cuban education before public schools were officially desegregated in 1894, from the maestras amigas-Black  and mulatto women who taught in their homes-to teachers in the schools  of mutual-aid societies for people of color. In the ways that African  descendants interacted with the Spanish colonial school system and its  authorities, and in the separate schools they created, they were  resisting the hardening racial boundaries that characterized Cuban life  and developing alternative visions of possible societies, nations, and  futures. Otheguy demonstrates that Black Cubans pioneered the region's  most progressive innovations in education and influenced the trajectory  of public school systems in their nation and the broader Americas.     A  volume in the series Caribbean Crossroads: Race, Identity, and Freedom  Struggles, edited by Lillian Guerra, Devyn Spence Benson, April Mayes,  and Solsiree del Moral     Publication of this work made  possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan  grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44031144591405,"sku":"9781683404767","price":254.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/1298\/2317\/files\/9781683404767.jpg?v=1782649923","url":"https:\/\/lioncrest.com.au\/products\/9781683404767","provider":"Woodslane Education","version":"1.0","type":"link"}