Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality by Domínguez, Esteban Morales

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Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality by Domínguez, Esteban Morales

Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality

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Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality by Domínguez, Esteban Morales

Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Dom nguez 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.

Author: Esteban Morales Dom?guez
ISBN-10: 1583673202
ISBN-13: 9781583673201
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2012
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d

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Esteban Morales Dominguez (born in Matanzas, Cuba, 1942) has been an active participant in the Cuban revolutionary project for the past fifty years and is one of Cuba's most prominent Afro-Cuban intellectuals. He is a member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, has held numerous academic posts, and has been awarded three times by both the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Higher Education. He is the principal or co-author of fifteen books and has published more than a hundred theoretical articles; his 2007 book, Desafios de la problematicas racial en Cuba (Challenges of the Racial Question in Cuba) was the first book-length academic publication on this subject by a scholar based in Cuba since the 1959 revolution.

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