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Vol 6, #19: September 2011

 

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Table of Contents

 

Publisher’s Note

 

From the Editor

 

Reflections on the Race Problem in Cuba

A Dialog Within the Race Debate in Cuba:

Affirmative Action or Citizen Reempowerment?

Manuel Cuesta Morúa

 

Is Negritude Over?

María I. Gaguaga Iglesias

 

El Hueco: A Pithole of a Neighborhood

Gloria Llopis Prenda

 

Occupational Hazards?

José Hugo Fernández

 

Manipulations and Forgetfulness

Jorge Olivera Castillo

 

Affirmative Action: Analysis and Perspectives

Hildebrando Chaviano Montes

 

Racism Today and Yesterday

Fernando E. Palacios Mogár

 

Race and Women

Eroisis Gonzalez Suárez

 

Fiesta Negra

Victor Manuel Domínguez

 

Profiles

María Ileana Faguaga Iglesias

Leonardo Calvó Cárdenas

 

Tributes

One Hundred Years of Glory

Eleanor Calvo Martínez

 

Guillén Landrián: Cinema as National Passion

Juan Antonio Madrazo Luna

 

Testimonies

Racism at the Seat of Power

Juan Juan Almeida

 

Popular Culture

The Comparsa: A Havana Carnival’s Cultural, Ethnic and Community Expression

Lucas Garve

 

Citizens’ Committee for Racial Integration

Happy Anniversary

Rogelio Montesinos

 

The CIR in 2011

 

Call for Papers 2nd Race and Cubanness Forum: Past, Present and Future

 

Parallel Views

Civic Transition

Moisés Leonardo Rodríguez

 

Prisoners of Color

Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez

Juan del Pilar Goberna

 

2011: International Year of Persons of African Descent

 

Musical Geniuses: The Pride and Paradigm of Cuba’s

National Culture, 1911-2011