Race in Cuba : essays on the Revolution and racial inequality / by Esteban Morales Dominguez ; edited and translated under the direction of Gary Prevost and August Nimtz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morales Domínguez, Esteban.

Contributor:

Prevost, Gary.

Nimtz, August H.

Standardized Title:

Problemática racial en Cuba. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Cuba.

Black people.

Racism--Cuba.

Racism.

Race discrimination--Cuba.

Race discrimination.

Cuba--Race relations.

Cuba.

Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 h

Contents:

Introduction to English language edition (2011) / Gary Prevost, August Nimtz, and Enrique Sacerio-Gari

Forward / August Nimtz

Introduction to Spanish language edition (2010)

Race and the Republic (December 2007)

Challenges of the Racial Question in Cuba (Summary of 2007 book : July 2008)

Some Challenges of Race (January 2007)

A Model for the Analysis of the Racial Problem in Contemporary Cuba (July-December 2002)

Racial Consciousness and the Anti-Racist Struggle (April 2010)

Understanding the Cuban Racial Question (April 2010)

The Metaphors of Color (August 2005)

The Racial Theme and Anti-Cuban Subversion (August 2007)

Cuba

Skin Color, Nation, Identity, and Culture : A Contemporary Challenge (2011)

Statistics and the Color of Skin (May 2009)

Shooting Without Shotguns (Interview in Alma Mater : October 2008)

Cuba : Science and Race Fifty Years Later (March 2011)

Racism in Cuba : An Unresolved Issue (International Press Service Interview : December 2009)

Trabajadores Article (December 2009)

Affirmative Action : An Incitement to Debate? (July 2010)

The Challenges of Race within the Socialist Context (March 2011).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index.

ISBN:

9781583673232

1583673237

9781583673225

1583673229

OCLC:

841809734