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The European Union recently dispatched anthropologists to study racism in Cuba. Their findings were shocking: Not only was racism alive and well in the workers’ paradise, but it was systemic and institutional. Blacks were systematically excluded from positions that involved coming in contact with foreign tourists (where they could earn tips in hard currencies), they were relegated to poor housing, complained of the longest waits for healthcare, were excluded from managerial positions, received the lowest remittances from relatives abroad, and were five times more likely to be imprisoned.
The report, `Race and Inequality in Cuba Today,` by Rodrigo Espina and Pablo Rodriguez Ruiz, published in the anthropological journal TEMAS in 2006, infuriated Cuban officials.
But the findings were irrefutable, and they reflected an acceleration of racism in the 1990s. The collapse of the Soviet Union only exacerbated the problem, particularly as Cuba now competed with Cancun and San Juan for European vacationers. As Democracy Now! reported in 2000, Cuban officials continued to exclude blacks from tourist-related industries.The European Union recently dispatched anthropologists to study racism in Cuba. Their... more
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Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba
available on Amazon.Com and at Lawrence Hill Books. The story of Carlos Moore.Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba
available on Amazon.Com and at Lawrence... more
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An interesting analysis of the Obama presidency and its impact on the dictatorship in Cuba.
Carlos Moore an academic authority on race in Cuba who wrote the definitive: Castro, the Blacks, and Africa (Afro-American Culture and Society (1989) and who was also here in Miami for the Book Fair presenting his book Pichon: Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba: A Memoir (Hardcover) with a forward by Maya Angelou.
Here is Carlos Moore on Fidel Castro's legacy on race:
"What I do blame Fidel Castro and his regime for is for having obstructed the actions of those who sincerely wanted to rid Cuba of that form of consciousness. Anti-racist black Cubans were destroyed by the regime -- imprisoned, sent to hard labor camps, to insane asylums, or driven to a life of exile and banishment from their country. It is untrue, and very simplistic, or convenient, to affirm or imply that Fidel Castro ''invented'' Cuba's racism. Cuban society was founded on black enslavement and racism. Racial slavery was the womb of Cuban idiosyncrasy and what is called ''Cuban culture.'' Cuban society was -- before Fidel Castro, and continues to be today -- a profoundly racist society. The problem I had with the revolutionary regime was that it pretended that this was not so, and that it declared, falsely, to the world that it had abolished racism in Cuba. Logically, all of those who said the contrary were simply denigrating the revolution and socialism and were ''agents of American imperialism.'' However, by denying the existence of racism in Cuba for 50 years, and by brutally preventing those who wanted to confront that reality from doing so, the revolutionary regime guaranteed a safe haven for the unfettered perpetuation and growth of a racist consciousness in Cuba. A great opportunity to at least disable that monstrosity of history was therefore lost. Fidel Castro did not invent racism; rather, his policies were a product of it."
http://www.drcarlosmoore.com/An interesting analysis of the Obama presidency and its impact on the dictatorship in... more
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