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Vol 8, #23: April 2013

 

Cover: Making Smiles

 

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Table of Contents

 

Publisher’s Note

 

From the Editor

 

Audience: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

 

Reflections on the Race Problem in Cuba

Cuba’s African Descendants: Poor by Mandate

Manuel Cuesta Morúa

 

From the Boom of Infamy to the Hall of Fame

José Hugo Fernández

 

Waiting for the White Child

Gloria Llopis Prendez

 

Proud of Being Black

Hildebrando Chaviano Montes

 

Societies of Color and Social Agency in Güira de Lelena, 1899-1960

Eleanor Calvo Martínez

 

The Eternal Doubt: How Many of Us Blacks are There?

Yaremis Flores

 

Black Women and the Cuban Nation: Historical and Imaginary Memory

Lucas Garve

 

The Price of Anti-Racist Activism in Cuba

Roberto Zurbano

 

Cuban African Descendant Week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Crossing Havana: Encounters with the Other City

Events Calendar for the Week

 

Citizens’ Committee for Racial Integration

The CIR During an Historic Year

Rogelio Montesinos

 

Tributes

Musicians for All Times

Jorge Olivera Castillo

 

Profiles

Yaremis Flores Marin

Leonardo Calvo Cárdenas

 

Art and Literature

Afro-Cuban Women in Opera: Stories, Coincidences and Realities

Yoslainy Pérez Derrick

 

Rebelliousness and Self-Esteem through Dance

Juan Antonio Madrazo Luna

 

The Black Man: Hero, Buffoon and Person in Cuban Colonial Literature

Alfredo Nicolás Lorenzo

 

Religion

Black Societies in Cuba as Educational Platforms: Lukumi Home Schools

Victor Betancourt Estrada Omolófaoró

 

Parallel Views

Complementarity of Cuban Civil Society’s Projects

Moisés Leonardo Rodríguez

 

Prisoners of Color

Grievous Abyss III

Guillermo Ordóñez Lizama