“Her timely analysis explores how gender and race relations forged definitions of manhood or ‘revolutionary masculinity’ based on honor and military service, replacing explicit racism with a gendered language of racialized civic engagement. Lucero employs neglected regional and municipal archives to build a narrative that follows a single corps of the Cuban army in Santa Clara province.”—Choice
“Illustrates how the war for Cuban independence constructed Cuban masculinity ideals through the obstruction of truth about racism on the island.”—Christopher M. White, author of A Global History of the Developing World
