{"id":50191,"date":"2016-11-25T00:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50191"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:04:04","slug":"colorism-and-privilege-an-afro-cuban-american-in-havana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50191","title":{"rendered":"Colorism And Privilege: An Afro-Cuban American In Havana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/femmagazine.com\/2016\/04\/28\/colorism-and-privilege-an-afro-cuban-american-in-havana\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Colorism And Privilege: An Afro-Cuban American In Havana<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/femmagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">FEM: UCLA\u2019s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/graciela.barada\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Graciela Barada<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My father, born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\" target=\"_blank\">Cuba<\/a> at the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuban_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\">Castro\u2019s Revolution<\/a>, migrated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a> in 1980. He was a young, black, Spanish-speaking political refugee who left his wife and months-old daughter behind in hopes of building a better life for himself. A \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/castro-announces-mariel-boatlift\" target=\"_blank\">Marielito<\/a>,\u201d my father <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/inatl\/longterm\/cuba\/stories\/mariel070996.htm\" target=\"_blank\">braved the 115-mile stretch<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caribbean_Sea\" target=\"_blank\">Caribbean sea<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> under <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Carter\" target=\"_blank\">President Carter\u2019s<\/a> pardon of Cuban refugees. My mother is a white Spaniard who moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C.<\/a> in 1989 for graduate school at Georgetown University. An unlikely couple, my parents met at my father\u2019s Cuban nightclub, a hub for Latino culture, music, and dance. Although my siblings and I were born and raised in the U.S., we have been fortunate enough to travel to our parents\u2019 birth countries in order to familiarize ourselves with their respective cultures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>..In Cuba, the Communist Revolution is often portrayed as the \u201cgreat equalizer,\u201d not just economically but also in respect to race relations. In many ways, this has been true: people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds have access to education, jobs, transportation, healthcare, and other social services. Regardless, there are traces of racial hierarchy and a colonialist mentality which are deeply entrenched in Cuban society. As far as I know, all of my Cuban relatives are black. The majority of them are dark-skinned; when asked, two of my male cousins expressed that they do not feel hated because of their African ancestry and darker pigmentation. Still, they are well-aware that their roles within society are informed by Cuba\u2019s history of racial hierarchy and discrimination&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/femmagazine.com\/2016\/04\/28\/colorism-and-privilege-an-afro-cuban-american-in-havana\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorism And Privilege: An Afro-Cuban American In Havana FEM: UCLA\u2019s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973 2016-04-28 Graciela Barada My father, born in Cuba at the end of Castro\u2019s Revolution, migrated to the United States in 1980. He was a young, black, Spanish-speaking political refugee who left his wife and months-old daughter behind in hopes of building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,14646,8,26],"tags":[240,673,25518,25517,25520,25521],"class_list":["post-50191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-colorism","tag-cuba","tag-fem","tag-fem-uclas-feminist-newsmagazine-since-1973","tag-graciela-barada","tag-havana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50191","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=50191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50193,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50191\/revisions\/50193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}