{"id":46158,"date":"2016-03-21T01:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T01:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46158"},"modified":"2016-03-21T01:40:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T01:40:50","slug":"antiracism-and-the-cuban-revolution-an-interview-with-devyn-spence-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46158","title":{"rendered":"Antiracism and the Cuban Revolution: An Interview with Devyn Spence Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antiracism and the Cuban Revolution: An Interview with Devyn Spence Benson<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

African American Intellectual History Society<\/a>
\n2016-03-08<\/p>\n

Reena Goldthree<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies
\nDartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nDevyn Spence Benson<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

This month, I interviewed historian Devyn Spence Benson<\/a> about her forthcoming book, Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution<\/em> <\/a>(University of North Carolina Press, April 2016). Based on extensive archival research in Cuba<\/a> and the United States<\/a> as well as interviews with Afro-Cuban activists, Antiracism in Cuba<\/em> explores public debates about race and racism in Cuba following the 1959 revolution<\/a>. Benson reveals how the state\u2019s ambitious campaign to eliminate racial discrimination was ultimately undermined by racist caricatures of Afro-Cubans in the media, the dismantling of independent black and mulato<\/a> institutions, the underrepresentation of Afro-Cubans in highest ranks of the government, and the pervasive ideology of raceless nationalism.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Devyn Spence Benson is Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University (LSU). She received her Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work examines the history of Modern Latin America and the Caribbean with a particular focus on black activism in Cuba. She has received fellowships from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Williams College, and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Benson\u2019s recent publications have appeared in the Hispanic American Historical Review<\/em><\/a>, the Journal of Transnational American Studies<\/em><\/a>, and PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin\/American Research Association<\/em><\/a>. She currently serves as the faculty director for LSU\u2019s Honors College study abroad program in Cuba…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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