Clara Ferreira Marques speaks to historian Ada Ferrer about Cuba’s legacy of slavery and revolution, and its tight relationship with the US
Clara Ferreira Marques speaks to historian Ada Ferrer on Cuba’s legacy of slavery and revolution, and its tight relationship with the USFidel Castro in Cuba in 1959. Picture: KEYSTONE/GETTY IMAGES
Ada Ferrer, Julius Silver professor of history and Latin American and Caribbean studies at New York University In 1853 an American vice-president was sworn into office while on a Cuban sugar plantation — a signal of the entanglements of those American and Cuban systems of slavery, and of that imperial interest.: The fight against slavery influenced the idealism of the Cuban War of Independence, from 1895 to 1898, and laid the ground for some of the radical ideas promoted by the 26 of July movement, led by Fidel Castro, in the 1950s.
Shortly after Castro came to power, he maintained that question of discrimination had been solved by the revolution; it’s over, he said. And at that point it became impossible, or at least very difficult, to talk about race without calling him a liar. [The government] invited black intellectuals from the US and the Caribbean to talk about racism in the US. But then when black Cuban intellectuals tried to meet them and talk to them about racism in Cuba, that was frowned upon.
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