A Nation for All
Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba
Published on 20. January 2011
464 pages
978-0-8078-9876-5 (ISBN)
Description
After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba’s freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and inclusive country — a nation for all, as Jose Marti described it. But did the Cuban republic, and later the Cuban revolution, live up to these expectations?
Tracing the formation and reformulation of nationalist ideologies, government policies, and different forms of social and political mobilization in republican and postrevolutionary Cuba, Alejandro de la Fuente explores the opportunities and limitations that Afro-Cubans experienced in such areas as job access, education, and political representation. Challenging assumptions of both underlying racism and racial democracy, he contends that racism and antiracism coexisted within Cuban nationalism and, in turn, Cuban society. This coexistence has persisted to this day, despite significant efforts by the revolutionary government to improve the lot of the poor and build a nation that was truly for all.
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Alejandro de la Fuente is associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Pittsburgh.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I: The First Republic, 1902-1933
- 1 Racial Order or Racial Democracy?: Race and the Contending Notions of Cubanidad
- 2 Electoral Politics
- PART II: Inequality, 1900-1950s
- 3 The Labor Market
- 4 Education and Mobility
- PART III: The Second Republic, 1933-1958
- 5 A New Cuba?
- 6 State and Racial Equality
- PART IV: Socialism, 1959-1990s
- 7 Building a Nation for All
- 8 The Special Period
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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