102. From Cuba with Love: Juan Rene Betancourt

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The Cuban activist and author Juan Rene Betancourt urges racial solidarity and reckons with the revolution under Castro and the island’s turn towards Communism.

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Further Reading

• J.R. Betancourt, Prejuicio (Camaguey: 1945).

• J.R. Betancourt, Mi Opinion y Mi Raza (Havana: 1948).

• J.R. Betancourt, Doctrina Negra (Havana: 1955).

• J.R. Betancourt, El Negro: Ciudadano del Futuro (Havana: 1959).

• J.R. Betancourt, "Castro and the Cuban Negro," The Crisis 583 (May 1961): 270-274.

• J.R. Betancourt, Naturaleza del Comunismo en America Latina (Buenos Aires: 1962).

• J.R. Betancourt, Sociologia Integral: La Superacion Cientifica del Prejuicio Racial (Buenos Aires: 1964).

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• D.S. Benson, Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution (Chapel Hill: 2016).

• A. de la Fuente, A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics Twentieth-Century Cuba (Chapel Hill: 2001).

• L.A. Glasco, "From Assimilation to Integration: The Narrow Spectrum of Afro-Cuban Ideology: Juan Gualberto Gomez, Evaristo Estenoz, and Juan Rene Betancourt," Diaspora 5 (1996): 97-117. 

• P. Serviat, "Solutions to the Black Problem," in P. Perez Sarduy and J. Stubbs (eds), AfroCuba: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture (Melbourne: 1993), 77-90.

Comments

Adam on 14 July 2022

Robert F Williams

Great episode!  Speaking of Africana Philosophy and Cuba, do you intend to cover Robert F Williams?  I know he's not Cuban, but I was just reminded of him because of how he took asylum there and ran "Radio Free Dixie" out of the country.

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Peter Adamson on 14 July 2022

Robert Williams

That's funny, a week ago I wouldn't have known who you are talking about but I have been reading up on the Black Panthers for an episode on them and learned of Williams as a figure who helped inspire the Panthers. I think he will probably just get a mention in passing in that episode, as part of the background.

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