Author: Cuban National Planning Council (U.S.). National ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuban Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Ethnic Relations in the Cuban Community
Author: Cuban National Planning Council (U.S.). National ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuban Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Race in Cuba
Author: Esteban Morales DomínguezPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583673202
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book 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.
Miami Mosaic
Author: Race and Ethnic Relations in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Robert M. LevinePublisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba
Author: Mark Q. SawyerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139448102
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book analyzes the triumphs and failures of the Castro regime in the area of race relations. It places the Cuban revolution in a comparative and international framework and challenges arguments that the regime eliminated racial inequality or that it was profoundly racist. Through interviews, historical materials, and survey research, it provides a balanced view. The book maintains that Cuba has not been a racial democracy as some have argued. However, it also argues that Cuba has done more than any other society to eliminate racial inequality. The contemporary outlook of the book demonstrates how much of Cuban racial ideology was unchanged by the revolution. Thus, the current implementation of market reforms and in particular tourism has exacerbated racial inequalities. Finally, it holds that despite these shortcomings, the regime remains popular among blacks because they perceive their alternatives of the US and the Miami Exile community to be far worse.
Imagining Miami
Author: Sheila L. CroucherPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813917054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Miami has long captured the world's attention in provocative ways. During the 1980s, a series of violent racial disturbances focused national and international attention there as analysts and observers scrambled to explain the demise of the "Magic City." What has emerged is a popular image of Miami as an urban area in which three distinct ethnic groups- Hispanics, Blacks, and Anglos- are pitted against one another in a battle for limited political, economic, and social resources. Sheila L. Croucher uses Miami as a laboratory in which to explore the social and political construction of ethnic identities and ethnic group conflict. Incorporating interviews with community leaders, politicians, journalists, and business people, as well as periodical and popular literature on Miami, this book examines how social constructs emerge and become accepted, as well as how these definitions reflect the pull of vested interests locally, nationally, and even internationally.
Cubans in Miami
Author: John EgertonContested Community
Author: Miriam Herrera JerezPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004339140
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In Contested Community, the authors analyze the Chinese immigrant community in Cuba between the years 1900–1968. While popular literature of the era portrayed the diasporic group as a closed, inassimilable ethnic enclave, closer inspection instead reveals numerous economic, political, and ethnic divisions. As with all organizations, asymmetrical power relations permeated Havana’s Barrio Chino and the larger Chinese Cuban community. The authors of Contested Community use difficult-to-access materials from Cuba’s national archive to offer a unique and insightful interpretation of a little-understood immigrant group.
A Nation for All
Author: Alejandro de la FuentePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807849224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Argues that racism and antiracism continue to coexist in Cuban nationalism and society despite its fight for freedom, and describes the limitations Afro-Cubans face in job access, education, and political representation.
Ethnic Interest Groups in US Foreign Policy-Making
Author: H. RytzPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137363134
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This book comprises the first systematic study on the impact of ethnic interest groups on US foreign policy, using the case study of how the Cuban?American National Foundation (CANF) influenced the outcome of three different legislatives debates that directly affected US Cuba policy.