Author: Sawyer, Mark Q.
Title: Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2006). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xxii,199 pp, PAPERBACK.. Small tear to head of spine. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG ¶ Contents : Race cycles, racial hierarchy, and inclusionary discrimination :a dynamic approach -- Freedom and discrimination : uneven inequality and inclusion in prerevolutionary Cuba -- Race and revolution : transformation and continuity -- Match made in heaven or strange bedfellows? : Black radicals in Castro’s Cuba -- Race and daily life in Cuba during the Special Period. Part I. Interview data -- Race and daily life in Cuba during the Special Period. Part II. Survey research -- Racial politics in Miami : ninety miles and a world away ["This book analyzes the triumphs and failures of the Castro regime in the area of race relations. It places the Cuban revolution in a comparative and international framework and challenges arguments that the regime eliminated racial inequality or that it was profoundly racist. Through interviews, historical materials, and survey research, it provides a balanced view. The book maintains that Cuba has not been a racial democracy as some have argued. However, it also argues that Cuba has done more than any other society to eliminate racial inequality. The contemporary outlook of the book demonstrates how much of Cuban racial ideology was unchanged by the revolution. Thus, the current implementation of market reforms and in particular tourism has exacerbated racial inequalities. Finally, it holds that despite these shortcomings, the regime remains popular among blacks because they perceive their alternatives of the US and the Miami Exile community to be far worse" - Publisher's description].

Keywords: Cuba, Political History, Afro-Caribbean, Black Minority, Racial Politics, Race, Sociology, Communism, Communist, Caribbean