Racial politics in post-revolutionary Cuba
By: Mark Q. Sawyer.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Race discrimination -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century; Cuba -- Race relations -- Political aspects; Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-
Description: "Using interviews, as well as survey and archival research, this book analyzes race relations under the Castro regime and places the Cuban revolution in a comparative and international framework. In doing so, Sawyer challenges other scholarly arguments either that the regime has eliminated racial inequality or that it has been profoundly racist."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race cycles, racial hierarchy, and inclusionary discrimination : a dynamic approach; title: Freedom and discrimination : uneven inequality and inclusion in   prerevolutionary Cuba; title: Race and revolution; title: Match made in heaven or strange bedfellows? : Black radicals in Castro's Cuba; title: Race and daily life in Cuba during the Special Period. Part I. Interview data; title: Race and daily life in Cuba during the Special Period. Part II. Survey data. Racial politics in Miami.