Minority identities and the nation-state
"In this collection leading academics and intellectuals reflect upon the concept of a minority and examine minority rights in a historical and comparative political perspective, covering the experiences of minorities in India, China, the erstwhile Soviet Union and Bangladesh. Th…
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This boo…
An examination of the tensions between racism and antiracism in Cuba's struggle to become a nation ... Explores the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868 (when the revolution began), until the intervention of American forces in 1898.
