Title: Antiracism in Cuba : the unfinished revolution /
Authors: Benson, Devyn Spence
Year: 2016
Subjects: Racism Cuba.; Black people Cuba Social conditions; Equality Cuba History; Blacks Social conditions; Equality; Politics and government; Race relations; Racism; Cuba Race relations History; Cuba Politics and government; Cuba
Abstract: "Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality. ... examines 1960s government programs and campaigns against discrimination, showing how such programs frequently negated their efforts by reproducing racist images and idioms in revolutionary propaganda, cartoons, and school materials"--
Contents: Introduction: race and revolution in Cuba -- Not blacks, but citizens: racial rhetoric and the 1959 revolution -- The black citizen of the future: Afro-Cuban activists and the 1959 revolution -- From Miami to New York and beyond: race and exile in the 1960s -- Cuba calls!: exploiting African American and Cuban alliances for equal rights -- Poor, black, and a teacher: loyal black revolutionaries and the literacy campaign -- Epilogue: a revolution inside of the revolution: Afro-Cuban experiences after 1961.