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Vol 2, #7: July 2007

 

 

 

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Table of Contents

 

Publisher’s Note

 

From the Editor

 

“A people without knowledge of their past history …”

Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)

 

Lino D’ou

 

Essays

Cuba: Cosmic Harmonies in the Havana Slave Descendant

José Hugo Fernández

 

The Rt. Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey, O.M.

Dr. Dinizulu Gene Tinnie

 

Barbara’s Son. The Influence of Juan Gualterto Gómez on the

Political and Journalistic Trajectory of Lino D’Ou

Miguel Cabrera Peña

 

Testimonies

Color and Uncertainty

Jorge Olivera Castillo

 

Race, Caste and Untouchability: Lessons from India

Dr. Laurence A. Glasco

 

Art and Literature

Arsenio Rodríguez: From Subversive Nationalism

To Prophetic Transnationalism

Enrique del Risco

 

Regino Pedroso: The Human Face of the Social

Osvaldo Navarro

 

Interview

A Conversation with a Babalawo

Lucas Garve

 

General

Gender and Race: Taboo Subjects for the Citizenry in Cuba

Miriam Herrera Calvo

 

Book Review of Jill Lane, “Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895”

Dr. Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez

 

Prisoners of Color

Jorge Luis García PérezAntúnez”: Double Orphanhood

Miguel Fernández

 

Arnaldo Ramos Lauzirique, an Emblematic Prisoner

Leonardo Calvo Cárdenas

 

Testimony

“…I love my black skin,”

Carolina María de Jesús (Brazil)