Recreating racism: Race and discrimination in cuba's “special period”

Fuente, Alejandro de la

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“…Rather, they are endemic wherever poverty prevails so that the average life expectancy among black Cubans is approximately 70 years at the same time that men in neighboring Haiti have an average life expectancy of 45 years. [53][54][55] Third, the historical tendency by scientists and the press to overstate the successes and potential benefits of genetic research 56,57 may have distorted some researchers' sense of how quickly this line of research is likely to produce practical applications. For example, predictions for finding a prostate cancer gene have been scaled back considerably, with a caution that the genetic mechanisms of prostate cancer "have turned out to be remarkably difficult to unravel."…”

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Genetic Research and Health Disparities

Sankar¹

2004

JAMA

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confidence: 99%

Genetic Research and Health Disparities

Sankar¹

2004

JAMA

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“…Lola's comments represent a distilled version of the official color-blind post-racialism which I repeatedly heard. A gap emerges here where the reality of racial discrimination in Cuba as documented by de la Fuente (2001ade la Fuente ( , 2001bde la Fuente ( , 2008, Blue (2007), and others runs counter to a denial of racism on the island.…”

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Post-Racialism in the Classroom as Anti-Racist Praxis in Cuba?

Kempf¹

2013

Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies

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Although Cuba is among the world's most racially egalitarian countries, racism exists on the island despite years of progress and struggle for racial equality. One of the key concepts used by Cuban teachers to explain race and racism on the island is the discourse of post-racialism, through which the contemporary significance of race is denied. While a silencing tool at times, Cuban post-racial discourse has also been an effective strategy for countering racism on the island for well over a century. Based on a mixed method study (survey and interview) conducted in the Havana area, this article investigates teachers' understandings of race and post-racialism in Cuba with a focus on education, schools and teachers' work using a critical race theory framework. The findings reveal that teachers understand themselves as frontline race workers and vanguard anti-racists. At the same time, the pedagogy and practice in which they are engaged relies heavily on a color-blind, post-racial approach which is derived from the larger Cuban race narrative as well as from the teachers' personal and communal experiences with race and racism.

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“…The GINI Coefficient doubled between 1986 and 1999 (Brundenius 2002), and the Sixth Congress of the Partido Comunista de Cuba recently redefined socialism as being not about equality, but rather equality of opportunity. 10 The basic social order of the revolutionary period is shifting dramatically, particularly in terms of racial (de la Fuente 2001a(de la Fuente , 2001bOgedengbe 2004) and generational (Chase 2008;Domínguez 2005Domínguez , 2008Espina Prieto 2001;Kapcia 2005;Rivero 2006) relations. 11 The Primacy of Space…”

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“Dangerous” Youth: Tourism Space, Gender Performance, and the Policing of Havana Street Hustlers

Hodge

2014

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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R e s u m e nEl desarrollo del sector turismo salvó a la economía cubana del colapso económico en la década de las 1990s, pero también produjo nuevos problemas de control social. Frente a estosúltimos, la re-especialización de la vida social fue obligatoria y las instituciones existentes resultaron insuficientes. La migración hacia La Habana sobrecargó la infraestructura urbana; los turistas extranjeros introdujeron ideas, valores y comportamientos que eran incompatibles con las normas revolucionarias; y la imagen turística se vio amenazada por estafadores, ladrones de poca monta y trabajadores sexuales. La solución fue la creación de una nueva fuerza policial que opera en y alrededor de las zonas turísticas y se especializa en el control de las interacciones entre cubanos jóvenes y los turistas. Los oficiales de la "Policía Especializada" acosan constantemente a los jóvenes de la calle; sin embargo, los datos etnográficos indican que los jóvenes y los oficiales comparten una lógica de género que a veces los vuelve semejantes. Ambos ocupan un lugar complejo e incierto en relación con las cambiantes fronteras socioculturales de la nación y el estado. El análisis convoca a la geografía crítica y la teoría de género como performance para comprender palabras y experiencias de los pingueros. [tourismo, género, policía, Cuba, juventúd, maculinidad, espacio] A b s t r a c t Development of the tourism sector saved the Cuban economy from the economic collapse of the 1990s, but it also produced new problems of social control for which existing institutions were inadequate: migration to Havana overburdened urban infrastructure; tourism introduced new values and behaviors that were inconsistent with revolutionary norms; and the Revolution's image was threatened by the emergence of con artists, petty thieves, and sex workers. The solution was the creation of a new police

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Recreating racism: Race and discrimination in cuba's “special period”

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Post-Racialism in the Classroom as Anti-Racist Praxis in Cuba?

“Dangerous” Youth: Tourism Space, Gender Performance, and the Policing of Havana Street Hustlers

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