Site hosted by Angelfire.com: Build your free website today!

 

Note:

Adobe

Reader

Needed

To read

Islas.

 

 

Home

 

Contact

Us

 

Photos

Islas

Vol 4, #13: September 2009

 

 

 

 

Rita Montaner

 

Islas

 

Table of Contents

 

Publisher’s Note

 

From the Editor

 

Anti-Black Racial Discrimination and Resistance to It

María I. Faguaga Iglesia

Historian and Anthropologist

Havana, Cuba

 

Horrors of Yesteryear: Shadow of the Present

José Hugo Fernández

Writer and Journalist

Havana, Cuba

 

The New Miscegenation: Las Polovinas

Zeta Dacosta

Researcher and Translator

Havana, Cuba

 

With the Truth Out in the Open

Leonardo Calvo Cárdenas

Historian and Political Scientist

Member, Executive Board, Citizens’ Committee for Racial Integration

Havana, Cuba

 

The Silenced Equation

Juan Antonio Madrazo

National Coordinator, Citizens’ Committee for Racial Integration

Havana, Cuba

 

Blacks and Mestizos: An At-Risk Group

Lucas Garve

Foundation for Freedom of Expression

Havana, Cuba

 

Challenging Challenges

Manuel Cuesta Morúa

Historian and Political Scientist

Havana, Cuba

 

A Time for Tribute and Hope: The Hall of Prominent Black Men and Women

Eleanor Calvo Martínez

Member, Executive Board, Citizens’ Committee for Racial Integration

Havana, Cuba

 

Harriet Beecher Stowe in José Martí’s “The Black Doll”

Miguel Cabrera Peña

Professor and Journalist

Cuban Resident of Santiago de Chile

 

The Royal Ballet in Cuba: A Blessing and Tribute

Rogelio Montesinos

Historian and Political Scientist

Havana, Cuba

 

Poems

Jorge Olivera Castillo

Writer and Journalist

Havana, Cuba

 

Two Nineteenth-Century Black Cuban Poets: To Plácido’s Memory (1809-2009)

Victor Manuel Domínguez

Writer and Journalist

Havana, Cuba

 

A Meeting with the Mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi: James Young

Ramón Humberto Colás

Founder, Independent Libraries of Cuba

Cuban Resident of the United States

 

Cuba and the Road to Modernity

Armando Añel

Writer and Journalist

Cuban Resident of the United States

 

Prisoners of Color: Rafael González Ruiz

Juan del Pilar Goberna

Human Rights Activist

Havana, Cuba