Antiracism in Cuba
Subtitle: The Unfinished Revolution
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781469626727
Subjects: Racism; Blacks, social conditions; Cuba, social conditions; Equality; Cuba, race relations; Cuba, politics and government
Description: "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"--