{"id":34449,"date":"2013-10-24T02:55:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T02:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34449"},"modified":"2016-03-21T00:42:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T00:42:33","slug":"cuba-is-white-black-and-mixed-race-because-it-is-diverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34449","title":{"rendered":"Cuba is White, Black and Mixed Race Because it is Diverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.havanatimes.org\/?p=99545\" target=\"_blank\">Cuba is White, Black and Mixed Race Because it is Diverse<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.havanatimes.org\" target=\"_blank\">Havana Times: open-minded writing from Cuba<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-22<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dmitri Prieto<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Agrarian University of Havana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HAVANA TIMES \u2014 Recently, on the eve of October 10, a Cuban national holiday commemorating the date (in 1868) in which Cuban landowner <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlos_Manuel_de_C%C3%A9spedes\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Manuel de Cespedes<\/a> and his retinue of (former) slaves took up arms against Spanish colonial domination, a Round Table program bearing the controversial title of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cubadebate.cu\/noticias\/2013\/10\/09\/cuba-es-mestiza\" target=\"_blank\">Neither Black Nor White: Cuba is Mixed Race<\/a>\u201d was aired on television.<\/p>\n<p>During the Round Table discussion, Cuban scientists presented valuable and interesting evidence showing that our population\u2019s gene pool combines the DNA of African, European and Asian \/ Indo-American peoples, concluding that, therefore, it would be impossible to define any Cuban \u201craces\u201d on the basis of genetics as such.<\/p>\n<p>On the basis of this accurate insight, however, they also suggested something that I consider dangerously dubious: the notion that Cuba is a \u201cmixed race\u201d country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.havanatimes.org\/?p=99545\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2014 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,8,394],"tags":[673,16224,16225,16227,16226],"class_list":["post-34449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-cuba","tag-dmitri-prieto","tag-dmitri-prieto-samsonov","tag-havana-times","tag-havana-times-open-minded-writing-from-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46146,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34449\/revisions\/46146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}