Castro's Negra/os
Any exploration of Fidel Castro racist views toward negro/as, or lack thereof, remains problematic if Cuban history is ignored; specifically, how negra/o identity was constructed differently than U.S. Black identity. As long as we keep the focus on the individual Fidel, we ignore the continuous stru...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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Black theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 95-109 |
RelBib Classification: | KBR Latin America NBE Anthropology TJ Modern history TK Recent history ZC Politics in general |
Further subjects: | B
la guerrita del doce
B Limpieza de sangre B Haitian revolution B blanqueamiento B de-Africanization B a / mulato B Santeria |
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Summary: | Any exploration of Fidel Castro racist views toward negro/as, or lack thereof, remains problematic if Cuban history is ignored; specifically, how negra/o identity was constructed differently than U.S. Black identity. As long as we keep the focus on the individual Fidel, we ignore the continuous structural racism faced by Cuban negra/os. Fidel, like most White Cubans, was influenced and shaped by how negro/as been historically seen, and by how bodies with darker hues continue to be constructed by the Revolution. Fidel, along with White Cubans, are part of a habitus which has taught us how to see, how to gaze upon negro/as. The question with which we should wrestle is how aware we Cubans who possess light-skin pigmentation are about our complicity with racist structures in Cuba? How has Cuban history and the construction of negro/a identity continued to manifest itself during the Fidel years. |
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ISSN: | 1743-1670 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Black theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2018.1460545 |