Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba by Mark Q. Sawyer

By Mark Q. Sawyer

Examining the triumphs and screw ups of race kinfolk in the Castro regime, this publication demanding situations arguments that the regime eradicated racial inequality or that it was once profoundly racist. via interviews, ancient fabrics, and survey study, it presents a balanced view that demonstrates how a lot of Cuban racial ideology was once truly left unchanged via the revolution. eventually, the e-book continues that regardless of those shortcomings, the regime is still renowned one of the black minorities simply because they understand their choices within the U.S. in the Miami Exile group to be a ways worse.

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Latin American exceptionalists of this group see the regime as having moved Cuba away from a previously egalitarian position. While their point of view is extreme, even many political moderates in the exile community would argue that race was not a central an issue before the revolution and that it is not now. In contrast, I will argue that the absence of race in exile dialogue often serves to hide racial prejudice or deflect it with discussions of anticommunism. The exile dialogue proposes a “raceless” – but by default white, European-based – Cuban identity in opposition to what exiles see as a divisive recognition of Afro-Cuban identity and experience.

The exile dialogue proposes a “raceless” – but by default white, European-based – Cuban identity in opposition to what exiles see as a divisive recognition of Afro-Cuban identity and experience. The exile community has been noted for being disproportionately white and for its conflicts with African Americans and Haitians (M. C. Garcia 1996; Croucher 1997). I will demonstrate that its racial attitudes in fact limit its credibility on the island as the major political alternative to the Castro regime, partly because the exile community is perceived as seeking to turn back the clock on racial progress in Cuba.

Reconstruction in the United States was in many ways a transitional phase. Reconstruction 12 Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba was a period during which the acute phase of the crisis – the war – was over, but a new and stable social order had not yet taken form. In fact, as McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly note, we cannot pinpoint clear beginnings and endings to periods of consolidation: “We see such episodes not as linear sequences of contention in which the same actors go through the repeated motions of expressing pre-established claims in lock-step, but as iterative sites of interaction in which different streams of mobilization and demobilization intersect, identities evolve, and new forms of action are invented, honed, and rejected as actors interact with one another and with opponents and third parties” (2001, 30).

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