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AfricaNow! April 17, 2024 Black Working-Class Contributions to the Cuban Revolution with Pedro Sarduy

Topic and Guest: Black working-class contributions to the most recent iteration of the Cuban revolution are immense, yet somehow missing in discourse around revolutionary Cuba.  The long history of African resistance and cultural contributions to Cuban society, which has been intricately connected to global Black freedom movements has been in rhythmic continuity till present day. An illustration of this is Carlota Lucumi and Firmina are remembered for their parts planning and leading a 1843 revolt of enslaved Africans in colonial Cuba. Then there is Rosa Castellanos was a freed slave, medic and soldier in the Ten Years’ War. At the onset of the war in 1868, Castellanos used her knowledge of indigenous medicinal herbs to treat injured soldiers. ...we come to understand the role that Juan Almeida, born into a black working-class family in Havana who also worked as a bricklayer from age 11, played in the Cuban revolution. ....

In Cuba’s support of liberation struggles against colonial forces on the African continent—from Algeria to Angola to Cape Verde to Guinea Bissau to Mozambique—individuals such Victor Dreke who epitomized Cuba in Africa, Africa in Cuba.  He served as second in command under Ernesto Che Guevara in the Congo. 

The continuities are clear and important on many levels – that is on the level of internal, as confronting internal contradictions specifically the necessity to fight the colonially structured vestiges of racism in Cuban society is an added terrain of struggle. ... The struggle to heighten the internal contradictions, which is a struggle, in its totality, a struggle against the coloniality of being. Where the vestiges of old forms of oppression are presented in new ways. In the case of Cuba, where the colonial structures of race/racism are used to try to undo the revolutionary process of creating a liberated territory. 

Today, we present a conversation from a few weeks ago with Pedro Sarduy where we engage in a discussion that is in its essence, a mapping of the anticolonial process. Pedro Pérez-Sarduy is a poet, writer, journalist, and broadcaster living in Puerto Rico, London and Havana. He is the author of Surrealidad (Havana 1967), Cumbite and Other Poems (Havana 1987 and New York 1990).  He is also co-editor with Jean Stubbs of Afro-Cuba: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture (1993) and co-author for the anthology No Longer Invisible/Afro-Latin Americans Today (1995). His Journal in Babylon is a series of chronicles on Britain. His first novel, Las Criadas de la Habana (The Maids of Havana), is based on his mother's life stories about pre-and post-revolutionary Havana.  This is the first novel by a contemporary Afro Cuban writer on family life in Cuba. He has written numerous articles. Together with Jean Stubbs, he wrote Afro-Cuban Voices on Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba (2000). Sarduy has read his work internationally and lectured regularly on race, politics, and culture at academic institutions, globally. 
Awards he has received a number of awards for his poetry.

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AfricaNow! Apr. 17, 2024 Black Working-Class Contributions to the Cuban Revolution with Pedro Sarduy

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