Identidades in English No 3, September 2014 | Page 11

The Game is Between Coachmen and
Runaway Slaves

class and gender in Cuba and the world

Juan Antonio Madrazo Luna
National Coordinator, Ciitizen’ Committee for Racial Integration (CIR)
Havana, Cuba

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inguistic racism and the construction of stereotypes occupy a privileged place in the social
imagination, this is because our school cur-

riculum lacks preventative tools and teachers are
ill-prepared to confront the tensions that are generated.
My neighbor, a mulatto woman who tries