@article{756072,
      recid = {756072},
      author = {Riley, Shannon Rose,},
      title = {Performing race and erasure Cuba, Haiti, and US culture,  1898-1940 / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {In this book, Shannon Rose Riley provides a critically  rich investigation of representations of Cuba and Haiti in  US culture in order to analyze their significance not only  to the emergence of empire but especially to the  reconfiguration of US racial structures along increasingly  biracial lines. Based on impressive research and with  extensive analysis of various textual and performance forms  including a largely unique set of skits, plays, songs,  cultural performances and other popular amusements, Riley  shows that Cuba and Haiti were particularly meaningful to  the ways that people in the US re-imagined themselves as  black or white and that racial positions were renegotiated  through what she calls acts of palimpsest: marking and  unmarking, racing and erasing difference. Riley's book  demands a reassessment of the importance of the occupations  of Cuba and Haiti to US culture, challenging conventional  understandings of performance, empire, and race at the turn  of the twentieth century.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/756072},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59211-8},
}