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Historicizing Black Left Feminism in Prerevolutionary Cuba

September 21, 2022September 14, 2022 Takkara Brunson Black Left Feminism, Black women, Cuba, feminism, Women

In April 1925, white feminist leaders invited tobacco stemmer Inocencia Valdés to speak before delegates of the Second National Women’s

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Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: A New Book on Afro-Cuban Writers and Diasporic Religions

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 AAIHS Editors Afro-Cubans, Age of Revolutions, Haitian Revolution, literature

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Karen Cook Bell citizenship, Cuba, freedom, law, Louisiana, Virginia

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery

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Cuba and the Making of a United States Left

September 14, 2018September 16, 2018 Karen Dubinsky Afro-Cubans, Cuba

As revolutions go, the Cuban Revolution had it all: handsome masculine icons toppling a ruthless U.S.-backed dictator against dramatic backdrops

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Cuban Revolution in America: A New Book on Cuba and the U.S. Left

June 8, 2018June 12, 2018 J. T. Roane black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Cuba, Racial Capitalism

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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