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Light on Cuba’s race taboo
Steve Ludlam recommends an acute analysis of the causes and contradictions of racial inequality on the island

Race in Cuba: Essays On The Revolution And Racial Inequality
by Esteban Morales Dominguez
(Monthly Review Press, £14.95)

 

Race issues in Cuba can puzzle regular visitors to the island. All around is evidence of the revolution’s achievements of civil equality and of Cuba’s great cultural ajiaco (stew).

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