Race in Cuba
Subtitle: essays on the Revolution and racial inequality
By: by Esteban Morales Domínguez ; edited and translated under the direction of Gary Prevost and August Nimtz
Contributors: Prevost, Gary, editor, translator; Nimtz, August H., editor, translator
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781583673201; 9781583673218
Subjects: Race relations; Race discrimination; Blacks; Influence; Racism; History
Work titles: Problemática racial en Cuba
Description: As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Dominguez, an Afro-Cuban, knew that the complicated question of race could not be ignored, or simply willed away in a post-revolutionary context. Today, he is one of Cuba's most prominent Afro-Cuban intellectuals and its leading authority on the race question. Available for the first time in English, the essays collected here describe the problem of racial inequality in Cuba, provide evidence of its existence, constructively criticize efforts by the Cuban political leadership to end discrimination, and point to a possible way forward. Morales Dominguez surveys the major advancements in race relations that occurred as a result of the revolution, but does not ignore continuing signs of inequality and discrimination. Instead, he argues that the revolution must be an ongoing process and that to truly transform society it must continue to confront the question of race in Cuba.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to English language edition (2011) / Gary Prevost, August Nimtz, and Enrique Sacerio-Gari; title: Forward / August Nimtz; title: Introduction to Spanish language edition (2010); title: Race and the Republic (December 2007); title: Challenges of the Racial Question in Cuba (Summary of 2007 book : July 2008); title: Some Challenges of Race (January 2007); title: A Model for the Analysis of the Racial Problem in Contemporary Cuba (July-December 2002); title: Racial Consciousness and the Anti-Racist Struggle (April 2010); title: Understanding the Cuban Racial Question (April 2010); title: The Metaphors of Color (August 2005); title: The Racial Theme and Anti-Cuban Subversion (August 2007); title: Cuba; title: Skin Color, Nation, Identity, and Culture : A Contemporary Challenge (2011); title: Statistics and the Color of Skin (May 2009); title: Shooting Without Shotguns (Interview in Alma Máter : October 2008); title: Cuba : Science and Race Fifty Years Later (March 2011); title: Racism in Cuba : An Unresolved Issue (International Press Service Interview : December 2009); title: Trabajadores Article (December 2009); title: Affirmative Action : An Incitement to Debate? (July 2010); title: The Challenges of Race within the Socialist Context (March 2011).