GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Light on Cuba’s race taboo
Steve Ludlam recommends an acute analysis of the causes and contradictions of racial inequality on the island
Race in Cuba: Essays On The Revolution And Racial Inequality
by Esteban Morales Dominguez
(Monthly Review Press, £14.95)
Race issues in Cuba can puzzle regular visitors to the island. All around is evidence of the revolution’s achievements of civil equality and of Cuba’s great cultural ajiaco (stew).
Similar stories
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
Cuba continues to embody a vision of internationalism that imperialism has never forgiven, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
ISAAC SANEY points to the global stakes involved in defending the Cuban revolution against imperialism and calls for resistance



