Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 199 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511791031
Content:
This book analyzes the triumphs and failures of the Castro regime in the area of race relations. It places the Cuban revolution in a comparative and international framework and challenges arguments that the regime eliminated racial inequality or that it was profoundly racist. Through interviews, historical materials, and survey research, it provides a balanced view. The book maintains that Cuba has not been a racial democracy as some have argued. However, it also argues that Cuba has done more than any other society to eliminate racial inequality. The contemporary outlook of the book demonstrates how much of Cuban racial ideology was unchanged by the revolution. Thus, the current implementation of market reforms and in particular tourism has exacerbated racial inequalities. Finally, it holds that despite these shortcomings, the regime remains popular among blacks because they perceive their alternatives of the US and the Miami Exile community to be far worse
Content:
Race cycles, racial hierarchy, and inclusionary discrimination : a dynamic approach -- Freedom and discrimination : uneven inequality and inclusion in prerevolutionary Cuba -- Race and revolution : transformation and continuity -- Match made in heaven or strange bedfellows? : Black radicals in Castro's Cuba -- Race and daily life in Cuba during the Special Period : Part I. Interview data -- Race and daily life in Cuba during the Special Period : Part II. Survey research. -- Racial politics in Miami : Ninety miles and a world away
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521848077
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521612678
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521848077
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511791031
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