Identidades in English No 3, September 2014 | 页面 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