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A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (Envisioning Cuba) | 
 enlarge | Author: Alejandro De La Fuente
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 609880
Media: Paperback
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 5.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0807849227
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.80097291
EAN: 9780807849224
ASIN: 0807849227
Publication Date: April 30, 2001
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After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and inclusive country--a nation for all, as Jose Marti described it. But did the Cuban republic, and later the Cuban revolution, live up to these expectations? Tracing the formation and reformulation of nationalist ideologies, government policies, and different forms of social and political mobilization in republican and postrevolutionary Cuba, Alejandro de la Fuente explores the opportunities and limitations that Afro-Cubans experienced in such areas as job access, education, and political representation. Challenging assumptions of both underlying racism and racial democracy, he contends that racism and antiracism coexisted within Cuban nationalism and, in turn, Cuban society. This coexistence has persisted to this day, despite significant efforts by the revolutionary government to improve the lot of the poor and build a nation that was truly for all.
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