35% Off July Book of the Month! Race in Cuba by Esteban Morales Domínguez

The revolutionary Cuban government has made strides against racism, yet embedded centuries of racial inequality and discrimination remain. In its fight for racial justice, argues author Esteban Morales Domínguez, one of Cuba’s most prominent Afro-Cuban intellectuals, the Revolution must be ongoing. This book is essential reading, given a new era of Cuban-US diplomatic relations on the horizon and the Cuban flag again flying at Cuba’s Washington embassy. Use the coupon code BOM715 and receive 35% off at check out.

Of all the challenges confronted by the triumphant Cuban revolution in 1959, none has proven to be as intractable as the issue of racism. In a thoughtful and honest fashion, Esteban Morales lays bare the myths and realities of race relations in twentieth-century Cuba. An informed reader would be well served to approach the subject of race in Cuba through the insights offered by Morales.

—Louis A. Perez, Jr., professor of history and Director, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of North Carolina

Esteban Morales Domínguez, a proactive, democratic voice living an integrated social-professional-Communist Party cadre life in Cuban socialism, straightforwardly posits skin color and racism as transversal life-defining subjects that require conscious social science research and special policy attention to renovate and advance Cuban socialism as a full participatory democratic project with equitable material and spiritual development for all citizens.

—James Counts Early, Director, Cultural Heritage Policy, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution

Available for the first time in English, the essays collected here describe the problem of racial inequality in Cuba, provide evidence of its existence, constructively criticize efforts by the Cuban political leadership to end discrimination, and point to a possible way forward.