Race to Revolution: The U.S. and
Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow
New Haven Peoples Center 37 Howe Street
The histories of Cuba and the United
States are tightly intertwined and have been for at least two
centuries. In Race to Revolution, historian Gerald Horne examines
a critical relationship between the two countries by tracing out
the interconnections among slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution.
Slavery was central to the economic and political trajectories of
Cuba and the United States, both in terms of each nation’s
internal political and economic development and in the
interactions between the small Caribbean island and the Colossus
of the North.
Horne draws a direct link between the
black experiences in two very different countries and follows that
connection through changing periods of resistance and
revolutionary upheaval. Black Cubans were crucial to Cuba’s
initial independence, and the relative freedom they achieved
helped bring down Jim Crow in the United States, reinforcing
radical politics within the black communities of both nations.
This in turn helped to create the conditions that gave rise to the
Cuban Revolution which, in 1959, shook the United States to its
core.
Presented
as
a project of People's World Friday Night Film &
Discussion Series Information: ct-pww@pobox.com
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