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Race, Class, and Gender

Anti-Racism in the Twilight
of the Cuban Revolution*
José Hugo Fernández
Writer and journalist
Havana, Cuba

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nti-racism in Cuba has no
surname. It is practiced as
something basically decent, but
from an unscrupulous perspective with
only one goal, which is not authentic. In
Cuba, we frequently hear the term
“leftist, anti-racist fighter.” There is no
reason to question the moral integrity
and civility of these so-called, surnamed

anti-racists. What is sad, absurd, harmful
is that their surnames function as a sort
of safeguard when facing political
power, to the detriment of other antiracists who are not considered leftists,
no matter how authentic they seem—
even when it comes to people with leftist
politics.

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