Contesting the Myth of (Revolutionary) Racial Harmony
This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. Just three months after revolutionary
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Afro-Cubans
Online Roundtable: Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba
November 6-11, 2017 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Devyn Spence
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Fears of Black Political Activism in Cuba and Beyond, 1912–2017
Images of police officers violently targeting black protestors in Buenaventura, Colombia, restraining Black Lives Matter activists in Charlotte, NC, or
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Representations of Black Women in Cuba
With the continued box office success of the Fate of the Furious, we are once again returning to the idea
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On Teaching Afro-Cubana Feminisms
Black and mulata women have participated in constructing Cubanidad (Cuban nationalism) since the beginning of the Cuban republic in 1902.
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