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On Teaching Afro-Cubana Feminisms

March 4, 2017March 8, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson Afro-Cubans, black feminism, Black women, Cuba, feminism, Latin America

Black and mulata women have participated in constructing Cubanidad (Cuban nationalism) since the beginning of the Cuban republic in 1902.

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Suspect Freedoms: A New Book on Afro-Cubans in New York

January 9, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Afro-Cubans, Anticolonialism, Immigration, Latin America, Latino/a

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Cuba, Antiracism, and a New Revolution

January 2, 2017January 4, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson civil rights, Cuba, Fidel Castro

January 1, 2017 was the first time since 1959 that Cuba has celebrated a New Year and the anniversary of

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Gender, Slavery, and the Archive in Cuba: An Interview with Aisha Finch

December 12, 2016December 11, 2016 Reena Goldthree black politics, Cuba, slavery

This month, I interviewed Aisha Finch about her new book, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies

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What Obama’s Trip to Havana Revealed about Race in Cuba and the U.S.

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Afrxlatinidad, Barack Obama, black politics, Caribbean, Cuba

During his groundbreaking visit to Havana last month, President Barack Obama suggested that the embrace of U.S.-style democracy and capitalism

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