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Vol 3, #10: September 2008

 

 

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Table of Contents

 

Publisher’s Note

 

From the Editor

 

Reflections on the Race Problem in Cuba

Cuba: Intolerance versus Nation

Rogelio Ibáñez

 

Economics: A Crossroads and Challenge for Cuba’s African Descendents

Leonardo Calvo Cárdenas

 

An Anonymous Social Fabric: Exclusion, Difference, and Integration

Juan Antonio Madrazo

 

The United States: Not as Racist as Cuba?

Jorge Oivera Castillo

 

Agujero Negro [Black Hole]

José Hugo Fernández

 

The Shackles of Gratitude

Victor Manuel Domínguez

 

Recurring Racism

Lucas Garve

 

Blacks in Cuba

Laritza Diversent Cámbara

 

Barack Obama and His International Impact

The Obama Revolution: A View from Cuba

Manuel Cuesta Morúa

 

Seduction and Questions: Barack Obama

Jorge Núñez Vega

 

Barack Obama in Jamaica: “Di New Trendsetter”

Moji Anderson

 

Barack Obama and India

Henry Thiagaraj

 

Barack Obama: A Change for the U.S. Collective Imaginary

Diana Senior Angulo

 

Linguistics

Bantu Survival in the Cuban “Lengua de Mayombe

William W. Megenney

 

Art and Literature

Tap-Tap: Culture, Pleasure, and Liberation

Mara Michelle

 

Tributes

Afro-Cuban Tales [Cuentos Negros de Cuba]

Lydia Cabrera

 

Osvaldo Navarro: A Crucial Individual

Emilio Ichikawa

 

General

Cuba on the Ground

Jonathan Pourzal

 

Prisoners of Color

Pedro Argüelles

Rogelio Montesinos

 

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