Introduction: race and revolution in Cuba -- Not blacks, but citizens: racial rhetoric and the 1959 revolution -- The black citizen of the future: Afro-Cuban activists and the 1959 revolution -- From Miami to New York and beyond: race and exile in the 1960s -- Cuba calls!: exploiting African American and Cuban alliances for equal rights -- Poor, black, and a teacher: loyal black revolutionaries and the literacy campaign -- Epilogue: a revolution inside of the revolution: Afro-Cuban experiences after 1961
Summary
"Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality. ... examines 1960s government programs and campaigns against discrimination, showing how such programs frequently negated their efforts by reproducing racist images and idioms in revolutionary propaganda, cartoons, and school materials"-- Provided by publisher
