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Vol 1, #1 June
2005
“The ultimate
measure of a man ... “
Martin Luther King, Jr
Publishing
Information
Table of Contents
EDITORIAL
Jaqueline H. Arroyo,
Dorothy L. Jenkins
“As soon as I
returned from my years abroad ...”
Fernando Ortiz
HISTORY
“Ethnic Power and Social Subversion: The Battalions
of Blacks and Mulattoes from Cuba”
Dr. María del Carmen
Barcía
ESSAYS
“The African Legacy in Cuba”
Dr. Juan Antonio
Alvarado
“African Linguistic Remnants in Cuban Spanish”
Dr. Sergio Valdés Bernal
“Racial Identity in Cuba”
Dr. Shawn Alfonso Wells
“Racial Relations in Cuba. Reflexions and
Experiences”
Dr. Niurka Núnez
“Racism in Cuba: A Task of Democratic Change”
Alvaro Alba
“Praise of the North American Black”
Ignacio Granados
“From half-truths to negative actions: Racial
Relations and the Structure of Power in Cuba”
Omar López Montenegro
FEATURES
“Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham
Jail”
Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
“The Whole World Was Watching: The International
Dimension of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement”
Dr. Laurence Glasco
“The Tie that Binds: Black Liberation Movement
after Dr. Martin Luther King”
Dr. Ali Mohammed
ART AND LITERATURE
“This is Incredible”
Aleko Ruila
“Cuban Pride”
Odisa Carvajal
“Poems: Revolution Square. My Woman Blacker than a
Spell”
Esteban Luis Cárdenas
INFORMATION
“Immigration Corner”
Jaqueline Arroyo
BOOK REVIEWS
Robert L. Paquette: Sugar is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the
Conflict Between Empires over Slavery in Cuba.
Mustafa Salaam
Juan Gualberto
Gómez: His Two Battles.
Salvador Romaní
Babylon Too Can be a
Red Island in the Caribbean
Luis Cino
The Sap of Various
Colors
José Antonio Fornaris
Prisoners of “Color”
Brief Biography of Jorge
Luis García Pérez “Antúnez”
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