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Vol 7, #20: February 2012

 

Cover: Alejandro Aguilera, Optimism

 

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Table of Contents

 

Publisher’s Note

 

From the Editor

 

Race and Cubanness Forum: Cuba—Past, Present and Future

Identity and Steadfastness on the Road to Integration

Eleanor Calvo Martínez

 

Relevance, Importance and Lessons of Cuban Anti-Racist Thought

Leonardo Calvo Cárdenes

 

Those Who Ideated Half of Cuba

Manuel Cuesta Morúa

 

2012: A Year of Transition Towards the True Cuban Nation?

María I. Faguaga Iglesias

Juan F. Benemelis

 

Afro-Cubans: Society and Politics

Fernando Palacios Mogár

 

The Independents of Color and Equal Rights

Hildebrando Chaviano Montes

 

Literary Approaches to Two Centuries of Black Cuban Thought

Victor Manuel Domínguez

 

Music and Nation

Jorge Olivera Castillo

 

The Black Press in Cuba and its Discourse of Modernity

Lucas Garve

 

Well Thought Out Images and Texts

Juan Antonio Madrazo Luna

 

The Cimarrón Movement: Its Struggles and Achievements

Juan de Dios Mosquera

 

Other Reflections

Noelvis: A Social Profile of Racism

Gloria Llopis Prendes

 

Two Sides of the Same Coin Are at Play

Rogelio Montesinos

 

African-American History Month

Photographic Essay

 

Interviews

“The Cuban Regime Has Kept Up Its Racist Behavior”:

Interview with Berta Soler

José Hugo Fernández

 

Prisoners of Color

Luis Enrique Labrador Diaz, Walfrido Rodriguez Piloto, Yordani Martinez Carvajal

Juan del Pilar Goberna

 

Maya Angelou