Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality
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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.
ISBN
9781583673201 9781583673218
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Monthly Review Press
City
New York, NY
Disciplines
Latin American History | Political Science | Race and Ethnicity
Recommended Citation
Morales Domínguez, Esteban, Gary Prevost, and August H. Nimtz. 2013. Race in Cuba: essays on the Revolution and racial inequality.