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Vol 8, #25: October 2013

 

 

Sonia Garro Alfonso, warrior in the fight for civil rights in Cuba

 

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Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note

From the Editor

 

Urgent Call

Actions Against Freedom and Democracy

 

Reflections on the Race Problem in Cuba

1912: The Resistive Cabala of the Criollo Nation

Manuel Cuesta Morúa

 

From the Commotion to the Crime

Jorge Amado Robert Vera

 

The Mute Says What the Blind Man Sees

José Hugo Fernández

 

Criollo Supremacy’s Last Alibi

Rogelio Montesinos

 

Tensions in Future Afro-Cutan Thought?

María I. Faguaga Iglesias

 

Three Kings Day

Hildebrando Chaviano Montes

 

 

Art and Literature

The Importance of Documentary Photography in Cuban Rap

Alina Guzmán Tamayo

 

From Shout to Rumor in Cuban Rap

Nilo Julián Gonzáles Preval

 

The Cuban National Lyric Theater

Yoslainy Pérez Derrick

 

 

Profiles

Raudel Collazo Pedroso. “Escuadrón Patriota”

Leonardo Calvo Cárdenas

 

Testimonies

From My Reality to Lands of Freedom: A Transforming Experience

Raudel Collazo Pedroso

 

 

Tributes

Women of Courage

Juan Antonio Madrazo Luna

 

María Teresa Vera: An Icon of the Traditional Ballad

Jorge Olivera Castillo

 

 

Book Review

Ecorie Abakuá, an Instructive and Demystifying Book

Pedro A. Cubas Hernández

 

 

History

The African Wet Nurse in Colonial Cuban Poetry

Jorge Camacho

 

 

Parallel Views

The Effect of Totalitarianism on Racism and

      Racial Discrimination in Cuba

Armando Soler Hernández

 

Evidence for History’s Judgment

Moisés Leonardo Rodríguez

 

Justice versus Injustice

James Weldon Hill

 

 

Prisoners of Color

Grievous Abyss V

Guillermo Ordóñez Lizama

 

30th Anniversary of the March on Washington: Martin Luther King