Tag: Cuba

  • And if We Weren’t Genetically Mixed Race? Cubanow Havana, Cuba 2013-12-23 Luis Toledo Sande (Translated by Dayamí Interián) To effectively fight racism, it’s necessary to know everything about it and expose its tricks. Otherwise, we run the risk of getting trapped by them, since they are powerful, able to “innocently” camouflage themselves in the interstices…

  • Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba [Williams Review] Association for Feminist Anthropology Book Reviews 2012-12-21 Erica Lorraine Williams, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Nadine T. Fernandez, Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010) In this insightful and well-written ethnography, Nadine Fernandez explores a central paradox:…

  • Cuba’s mixed-race population grows Fox News Latino 2013-11-08 EFE News Service The number of mixed-race people in Cuba continues to increase as the ranks of those identifying themselves as white or black declines, according to the results of the 2012 Census released Friday. The proportion of mixed-race people grew from 24.9 percent in 2002 to…

  • Unbecoming blackness: the diaspora cultures of Afro-Cuban America [Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 5, 2014 pages 889-890 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.847200 Nora Gámez Torres, Visiting scholar Cuban Research Institute Florida International University, Miami Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora cultures of Afro-Cuban America, by Antonio López, New York, New York University Press, 2012, xi + 272…

  • Cuba is White, Black and Mixed Race Because it is Diverse Havana Times: open-minded writing from Cuba 2013-10-22 Dmitri Prieto Agrarian University of Havana HAVANA TIMES — Recently, on the eve of October 10, a Cuban national holiday commemorating the date (in 1868) in which Cuban landowner Carlos Manuel de Cespedes and his retinue of…

  • Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History by Kathleen López (review) Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 12, Number 3, 2013 pages 234-236 DOI: 10.1353/lag.2013.0049 Joseph L. Scarpaci, Professor Emeritus of Geography Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kathleen López, Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013) The new millennium cast…

  • Cuban Color Classification and Identity Negotiation: Old Terms in a New World University of Pittsburgh 2004 246 pages Shawn Alfonso Wells Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Pittsburgh in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This thesis analyzes how the Cuban Revolution’s transnational discourse on blackness…

  • The Cuban Remix: Rethinking Culture and Political Participation in Contemporary Cuba University of Michigan 2008 555 pages Tanya L. Saunders A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) This dissertation examines the post-1959 activism of Cuba’s socially critical artists and intellectuals, and the effects of the…

  • “Chinese Cubans” shows how Chinese migration, intermarriage, and assimilation are central to Cuban history and national identity during a key period of transition from slave to wage labor and from colony to nation. On a broader level, López draws out implications for issues of race, national identity, and transnational migration, especially along the Pacific rim.

  • A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans Miami Herald 2007-06-10 through 2007-06-24 In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful civil and cultural rights movement flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garffuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not…