Resumen es: El titulo de este ensayo refleja los desafios a que se enfrentan los afrodescendientes en Latinoamerica y el Caribe dentro del discurso hegemonico nacion...

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Los afrodescendientes de américa latina y el caribe y el reto de encontrar espacios políticos

Palabras clave: afrodescendientes, afrocubanos, Cuba, conflictos raciales ABSTRACT: The title of this essay reflects the challenges that Afro-des- cendents still confront within the hegemonic national discourse of ―nations without racial conflicts‖ The response to this hegemonic discourse has been the launching of numerous Afro-descendents' associations across Latin America One of these socie- ties is Cofradia de la Negritud in Cuba In this work, first, we will establish the con- nection between the objectives sought by the Cofradia actual members of the Co- fradia, and those sought by the Afro-Cuban leaders through the now non-existent So- ciedades de Color Second, we will examine the vulnerability of both associations produced by their political objectives: to fight against racism and racial discrimina- tion Third, we will compare the objectives sought by other Afro-descendents' asso- ciations such as AFRODES (Colombia), Jovenes Afro-descendientes de America del Sur, and the Cofradia itself with those proposed within cultural and scientific projects conducted through casas and fundaciones in Cuba

LOS AFRODESCENDIENTES DE AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE Y EL RETO DE ENCONTRAR ESPACIOS POLÍTICOS The Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Challenge of Finding Political Space

The only study of Cuban social organization with any claim to comprehensiveness is Lowry Nelson's "Rural Cuba", 1950. Nelson suggests that although lower, middle and upper classes may be distinguished according to the usual objective criteria, the subjective evaluations of Cubans pointed to only two classes, upper and lower. While making it clear that Cuban society was far from rigid and its two classes by no means homogeneous, Nelson (1950:147) discusses vertical mobility and the dynamics of interclass relations only with reference to the labor movement. The most striking aspects of this problem belonged in fact to the urban scene and thus fell outside the scope of his study. Nelson also omitted discussion of the paternalistic concept of government as a factor in the definition of classes; this also is most significant in urban contexts.

Wyatt MacGaffey

Papers

Social Structure and Mobility in Cuba