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From the Editor

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CONTENTS

Race, class and gender
Associationism, Not Mirages
José Hugo Fernández

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Inequalities From Other Havana Postcards
Juan Antonio Madrazo Luna

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El Moro: the Price of disdain
Surelys Vega Isás
Eric Fidel Toledo Acevedo

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Capicu: A White doublet that wins either way
Marthadela Tamayo González

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Afro-Desendant in the current Cuban Economy:
History,Challenges, and Perspectives.
Fidel Guillermo Duarte González

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Rescuing an Endangered Society
Eleanor Calvo Martínez

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Words Given, Words Taken Away: Black Voices in the Cuban Antislave
Novel and its Reflection in Cuba’s Official Rhetoric on race Today
Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez
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Impressions of Afro-Desendants in Cuba
Omer Freixa

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High Noon in August
Bonita Lee Penn

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Testimonies

Cover Design:
Images.
©Juan A. Alvarado
Juan A. Madrazo
Norberto P. Cirio
Ashanti Peru

Confessions of a Cuban Gay
Michel Perea Enríquez

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I Am From Cuba. I Live in Cuba. And Today I Will Speak of its Reality
Natividad Soto Kessel
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