In Review
Castro, the Blacks, and Africa by Carlos Moore, UCLA Center for AfroAmerican Studies, 1989, $43 (cloth), $23.50 (paper). Like many Cuban-American 6migr6s, Carlos Moore has a tremendous axe...
...A must-read for anyone who wants to know who's who in the parallel foreign policy establishment...
...Cuba policy from Thomas Jefferson to Operation Mongoose, Benjamin offers a sophisticated discussion of policy-makers' motivations...
...This book is oral history at its best...
...This biography examines in detail the impact of the exile community on the figure Cubans still look upon as their "founding father...
...In this staid but readable account of the history of U.S...
...The response of Latin America to the "scientific" racism prevalent in Europe for decades is the subject of this book...
...Slavery was not abolished in Cuba until 1886, much later than in other Latin American countries, and the antislavery narrative is still an important genre in Cuban literature...
...Thousands were jailed, tortured and executed during the 1960s in Brazil and the 1970s in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile...
...influence...
...Case studies include: "Racial Ideas and Social Policy in Brazil," "Race in Argentina and Cuba," and "Racism, Revolution and Indigenismo: Mexico...
...On the one hand, racial heterogeneity characterized most of their societies...
...The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940 ed...
...of Texas Press, 1990, 145 pp., $15.95 (cloth), $7.95 (paper...
...An important contribution to understanding Nicaraguan history and political culture...
...of North Carolina Press, 1990, 377 pp., $47.50 (cloth), $14.95 (paper...
...What will keep it from recurring...
...Jose Marti and the Emigre Colony in Key West: Leadership and State Formation by C. Neale Ronning, 1990, Praeger, 175 pp., $35.00 (cloth...
...Latin Americans faced a difficult intellectual dilemma regarding race...
...Moore's anger so pervades the book that readers may dismiss the serious and pertinent questions he raises...
...avoidance (19631967) rapprochement (1968-78...
...This study traces that theme, bringing to light the island's rich tradition of Afro-Latin literature and culture...
...But he has written an insightful, provocative and scholarly account of Cuba's Africa policy...
...Gould examines the process of peasant radicalization in the economically strategic province of Chinandega, documenting the evolution of consciousness from the clientelistic dependency of the early Somoza years to the gradual fusing of popular and middle-class opposition movements...
...Punishing the criminals and risking vengeance...
...The Cuban 6migr6 colony in Key West played a central role in the emergence of Marti as the leader of the Cuban independence movement in the 1890s...
...While refraining from speculating about the emergence of a "new class," Fitzgerald argues that the role of these managers and professionals has been key to the successes and failures of Cuban development...
...A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers by Lawrence Weschler, Pantheon, 1990, $22.95 (cloth...
...As the dictatorships intended, this carnage wounded the body politic and traumatized society as a whole...
...Now that the generals have pulled back, coming to grips with this nightmareand its perpetrators-has become a national drama...
...The ad hoc rebuilding managerial cadres in the 1960s, the emergence of trained professionals the following decade, and the progressive displacement of former by the latter, is the subject of this book...
...Literary Bondage: Slavery in Cuban Narrative by William Luis, Univ...
...by Richard Graham, Univ...
...G6mez Treto describes the phases of church relations with the revolutionary state: uneasiness (1959-1960...
...To Lead As Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979 by Jeffrey L. Gould, Univ...
...NED is a branch of the U.S...
...The report, which focuses on NED's operations in Latin America, chronicles how it has come to be an "international political action committee," distributing U.S...
...Weschler is a master story-teller, and his account of how Brazilians and Uruguayans have grappled with this issue is gripping, painful and, at once, beautiful...
...Like many Cuban-American 6migr6s, Carlos Moore has a tremendous axe to grind...
...and, finally, dialogue...
...Soon after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, that nation lost most of its skilled and professional labor pool...
...Key West was the largest of the dozen or so 6migr6 enclaves in the United States, and was "the leading repository of revolutionary activity" against the island's colonial govemment...
...Managing Socialism: From Old Cadres to New Professionals in Revolutionary Cuba by Frank T. Fitzgerald, Praeger, 1990, 176 pp., $39.95 (cloth...
...government funds to a multitude of partisan projects around the world...
...of Texas Press, 1990, 311 pp., $40.00 (cloth...
...resistance (1961-1962...
...Sugar and slaves were the twin pillars of the Cuban economy in the nineteenth century...
...The Church and Socialism in Cuba by Ratil G6mez Treto, Orbis Books, 1989, 151 pp., $9.95 (paper...
...National Endowment for Democracy: A Foreign Policy Branch Gone Awry by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs and the Inter-Hemispheric Resource Center, 1990, 94 pp., $8.95...
...On the other, many Latin Americans aspired to an ever closer connection to Europe and sought to follow its leadership in every realm...
...He argues that the revolution's adventures overseas have been undertaken primarily to co-opt Cuba's black majority, disenchanted by the failure to combat racism at home...
...That would be unfortunate, because race-that undeniable, yet eternally denied characteristic of Cuban society-is indeed key to understanding the dynamics of Cuban politics...
...A concise historical overview written by a prominent Cuban lay Catholic...
...Or forgiving them and leaving their power and self-image intact for the next round...
...The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution: An Empire of Liberty in an Age of National Liberation by Jules R. Benjamin, Princeton Univ., 1990, 235 pp., $29.95 (cloth...
...A good resource on this important issue...
...He argues persuasively that the revolution was the natural result of overbearing U.S...
...government, at the center of an interlocking network of public agencies and private, mainly right-wing, organizations...
Vol. 24 • November 1990 • No. 3
