Islas
Vol 3, #10: September 2008
Islas
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
Back Cover: Lopez Lomong:
Sudanese carrier of the U.S. flag at the Olympics
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