A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba
@inproceedings{Fuente2001ANF,
title={A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba},
author={A. D. L. Fuente},
year={2001}
}After 30 years of anti-colonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well-represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and inclusive country - a nation for all, as Jose Marti described it. But did the Cuban republic, and later the Cuban revolution, live up to these expectations? Tracing the… CONTINUE READING
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