Challenging Racism in Revolutionary "Raceless" Cuba (Audio)

Challenging Racism in Revolutionary “Raceless” Cuba (Audio)

In this edition of NACLA Radio, Helen talks with NACLA Report contributor Devyn Spence Benson about her article on racism ...
Black Brazilian Women and the Lula Administration

Black Brazilian Women and the Lula Administration

This piece was published in the March/April 2007 issue of the NACLA Report. The social sciences produced by black intellectuals ...
To Live and Let Live in South Los Angeles

To Live and Let Live in South Los Angeles

“Day to day, we all get along,” says South Los Angeles community leader Arturo Ybarra, unintentionally alluding to Rodney King’s ...
The Resurgence of Racism in Cuba

The Resurgence of Racism in Cuba

“I don’t think you should talk about this topic,” an Afro-Cuban woman replied to a journalist from the popular weekly ...
Dominican Republic Spurns Haitian Migrants: Rejection of African Heritage Fuels Anti-Haitian Views

Dominican Republic Spurns Haitian Migrants: Rejection of African Heritage Fuels Anti-Haitian Views

Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a single Caribbean island, Hispaniola, but Haitians living in the Dominican Republic—who number at ...
A PRECOLUMBIAN DIASPORA

A PRECOLUMBIAN DIASPORA

THE AFRICANDIASPORA DID NOT, AS SO MANY suppose, originate in the New World; it began in North Africa, the Creum-Mediterranean, ...
Only My Hairdresser Knows for Sure": Stories of Race, Hair and Gender

Only My Hairdresser Knows for Sure”: Stories of Race, Hair and Gender

“Once we were all together,” one of the women told me, “and my mother’s friend started calling us names, pointing ...
Rap and Revolution: Hip-Hop Comes to Cuba

Rap and Revolution: Hip-Hop Comes to Cuba

Half an hour’s drive east of Havana is the suburb of Alamar, home to 300,000 Cubans. Built in the early ...