After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four
years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally
became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition
that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and
mulattoes were well represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and
inclusive country--a nation for all, as JosA(c) MartA- described
it. But did the Cuban republic, and later the Cuban revolution,
live up to these expectations?
Tracing the formation and reformulation of nationalist
ideologies, government policies, and different forms of social and
political mobilization in republican and postrevolutionary Cuba,
Alejandro de la Fuente explores the opportunities and limitations
that Afro-Cubans experienced in such areas as job access,
education, and political representation. Challenging assumptions of
both underlying racism and racial democracy, he contends that
racism and antiracism coexisted within Cuban nationalism and, in
turn, Cuban society. This coexistence has persisted to this day,
despite significant efforts by the revolutionary government to
improve the lot of the poor and build a nation that was truly for
all.
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