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Vol 1, #2  November 2006

 

 

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“The black man does not ask for privileges ...”

Juan Gualberto Gómez

 

Publishing Information

 

Table of Contents

 

Publisher’s Note

 

From the Editor

 

“...I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people...”

Nelson Mandela

 

ESSAYS

“Cuba: The Metaphors of Color”

Dr. Esteban Morales

 

“A Racial Geography: The Meanings of Blackness in a Havana Neighborhood”

Dr. Nadine Fernandez

 

“Shades of Race in Contemporary Cuba”

Umi Vaughan

 

“Afro-Cuban Music: Origins and Etymologies”

Dr. William W. Megenney

 

HISTORY

“The Spaces of Slave Resistance in Cuba”

Dr. Gabino La Rosa Corzo

 

DEFINING MOMENT

“The Right to Vote”

James Weldon Hill

 

“Red and Black”
Miguel Fernández

 

RELIGION

“Monte, :Palos, Herbs”

Osvaldo Navarro

 

“Religion, Race and National Identity Formation in Cuba”

Dr. Christine Ayorinde

 

ART & LITERATURE

“Eddy Campa: The Centripetal Utopia in Little Havana Memorial Park”

Emilio Ichikawa

 

Poems: Nelson Rossell Cosme

 

“Who am I?”

 

“A Vision of Cuban Rap”

Juan Cuadra

 

PHOTO ESSAY

“Images of Havana Today”

Javier

 

PRISONERS OF COLOR

Oscar Elías Biscet

 

Hurricane Katrina