Author: Pedro Perez Sarduy, Jean Stubbs
publisher name: University Press of Florida, Gainsville
ISBN: 9780813017358
Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba is based on the vivid firsthand testimony of prominent Afro-Cubans who live in Cuba. The book of interviews explores the ways in which race affects daily life on the island, celebrating racial and national identity while expressing an urgent need to end the silences and distortions of history in both pre- and post-revolutionary Cuba.
The 14 people interviewed, representing different generations and geographic areas of Cuba, come from various fields such as the arts, media, industry, academia, and medicine. Responding to four controversial questions, they discuss what it's like to be black in Cuba, how the revolution has made a difference, to what extent that difference is true today, and what can be done.
Exposing the contradictions of racial stereotyping and cultural assimilation, their answers make the case that the issue of race in Cuba, no matter how hard to define, should not be ignored.
