Identidades in English No 3, September 2014 | Page 6

The past few years and the path taken by an increasingly organized Cuban society, and its growing confronting of a broad set of problems that affect it, have contributed to profiling its projects
and efforts in extremely diverse places. The way
in which this edition’s ample number of articles
dialog, intertwine and complement each other is
remarkable.
They deal with the struggle for racial, class and
gender equality, democratization, constitutionalism, perspectives of different independent movements, and the way in which these civil projects
are facing problems in the political, social, cultural and historical order, and reveal this coherence in their goal—to create a nation definitively
on the road to modernity..

The integrity they reveal inspires a view of a unified group that does not fragment into diverse position.
In “The New Cuban Revolutionaries: Authentic
Anti-Racists?” José Hugo Fernández analyzes the
peaceful opposition movement in Cuba.
He also reviews the way it is dealing with the race
problem in the midst of a political and sociocultural climate in which racist models have prevailed since the colonial period, and which the

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1959 revolutionary elite has done little to change.
The author emphasizes the need to bring about
authentic political, economic and structural reforms as a necessary step prio "F