Cuban liberation struggle based on Ada Ferrer's Insurgent Cuba

"With the U.S. domination of Cuba, race discrimination, which should have been wiped out forever by the blood shed in common on the field of battle... became especially acute. In the parks of many cities one could observe the disgraceful sight of blacks and whites segregated in separate areas. Many educational, economic, cultural and recreational establishments were barred to black citizens, who were denied the right to study, work, and enjoy culture, and what …

…the whites and the patronage. Insurgent Cuba shows the path of transformation of racial ideologies of the revolution from the abolition of slavery to the war of independence. Overall, the author in her careful and original examination of the tension between racism and anti-racism within the Cuban nationalist and liberation movement, she presents a likely and convincing analysis of the conflicting coexistence of antiracist aspirations and the acceptance of a racial hierarchy within the society.