Racismo vs. socialismo en Cuba: un conflicto fuera de lugar (apuntes sobre/contra el colonialismo interno)

Roberto Zurbano Torres

Racism v. Socialism in Cuba: A Misplaced Conflict (Notes on/against Internal Colonialism)

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Roberto Zurbano Torres Centro de Investigaciones Literarias, Casa de las Américas

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The following article examines the historical and ideological articulation of racism in Cuba, reflecting on its persistence after the 1959 revolution. To approach the subject it makes an argument that departs from the epistemological, critical and propositional contributions developed in the theoretical field described, asessed and unpacked by the concept of coloniality of power, in which the idea of race is paramount. Through a revision of the concept of internal colonialism, the paper addresses the way in which the oficial policy of Cuban Socialism elaborates its own ideological blindness in regards to racism, expressed in a long silence on the subject and its refusal to recognise the presence of racism in the island. Also, it presents the anti-racist agenda as a demand in the face of the new global and local scenarios of a still incomplete project of social transformation.

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Racism, internal colonialism, Socialist Cuba, coloniality of power

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