The "Black Plague" in a Racial Democracy: Tuberculosis, Race, and Citizenship in Republican Cuba, 1925–1945

Cuban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-339
Author(s):  
Kelly Urban
Author(s):  
Mark Golub

This concluding chapter considers the implications of the book’s central claims: that constitutional law marks a contested site of racial formation, that color-blind constitutionalism represents an assertion of white racial interest and identity, and that the peculiar form of racial consciousness it enacts renders the pursuit of racial equality a violation of white rights. Taking up the question of political possibility within a legal system constituted by racial domination, the chapter suggests that racial equality may not be achievable within the current American constitutional order. It calls for a rethinking of American law and politics from the premise that racial equality will require a more fundamental transformation than these constraints would permit, and points toward an explicitly antiredemptive political vision upon which a more authentic racial democracy might be founded.


Author(s):  
Harris Feinsod

This chapter introduces the unlikely roles poets played at the center of hemispheric cultural diplomacy initiatives in 1938–1945, the years when Good Neighbor diplomacy was motivated by a broad antifascist coalition. The chapter discusses major diplomat-poets like William Carlos Williams, Pablo Neruda, Archibald MacLeish, and Langston Hughes, and compares these writers to Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos, Ecuadorian Consul General Jorge Carrera Andrade, soldier-poet Lysander Kemp, and others who coalesced around the anthologies, translations, and congresses of Good Neighbor initiatives. Borrowing metaphors of bridging and broadcasting from new infrastructures of hemispheric modernization, and invoking strategies of apostrophic address to an impossibly large hemispheric public, Good Neighbor poetry promoted Popular Front antifascism, but also enabled advocates of decolonial politics, racial democracy, and international feminism.


2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
Ciprian Onofrei

"Calamitas terrena or Poena divina: An Eliadian Approach to the Plague in the Novel Sortez vos morts by Bruno Leydet. The article proposes a dichotomous analysis of the outbreak of the Black Plague in Marseille (1720), described by French writer Bruno Leydet in the novel Sortez vos morts, which appeared in 2005. According to the grid established by Mircea Eliade, the analysis is built on two levels: the sacred and the profane. The religious as well as the modern perception of the disease and the use of a relevant lexis allow the bubonic plague to transgress the historical space, passing into the literary one. The plague epidemic in southern France is, in our view, not only a manifestation of the divine will to punish the sinful souls of the dead, but also the incarnation of greed and vicious side of the human being. Keywords: plague, Bruno Leydet, Mircea Eliade, holy, unholy "


2021 ◽  
pp. 955-973
Author(s):  
Manoel Bittencourt

After four decades of racial segregation, South Africa transitioned to a non-racial democracy in 1994. Inevitably for a country with segregationist labour market policies for so long, South Africa is also one of the most unequal countries in the world. In order to take an overview of government debt in South Africa, this chapter looks at macroeconomic performance but also at how the political regime characteristics and inequality have interplayed with government debt during the 1970–2016 period. The data suggest that economic growth correlates negatively with debt and that democracy correlates positively with debt. In addition, the data do not suggest that democratic maturity is already associated with lower debt nor that the outgoing apartheid-era National Party bequeathed the young democracy with high debt. Encouragingly, the data do suggest that inequality and public expenditure on education correlate positively with debt, which suggests that the democratic government has the median voter in mind when creating debt and also that part of the debt is being invested in human capital formation.


2021 ◽  
pp. 104398622110384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Truzzi ◽  
Viviani S. Lirio ◽  
Daniel R. C. Cerqueira ◽  
Danilo S. C. Coelho ◽  
Leonardo C. B. Cardoso

The main objective of this study is to quantify racial victimization differential between Blacks and Whites in Brazil, focusing on homicides and physical assaults. Combining socioeconomic data from the Brazilian Household Survey with data from the Mortality Information System, we apply the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition to isolate the racial discrimination component from the social indicators correlated with homicides and physical assaults. Findings indicate that only part of the victimization differential between Blacks and Whites is explained by structural attributes. A significant portion of this differential (at least 40%) for both homicides and physical assaults persists as evidence of racial discrimination. In addition, both for homicides and physical assaults, a more discriminatory scenario is observed in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil, regions historically characterized by higher social inequalities and violent mortality.


Author(s):  
Luana Ribeiro da Trindade ◽  
Ana Carolina Costa dos Anjos

Resumo Este artigo discute a gramática de relações raciais e os racismos a partir do caso de um professor do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia São Paulo (IFSP) que fez um post em seu perfil do Facebook, o qual foi denunciado por alguns segmentos sociais como racista. Metodologicamente, empreendemos um estudo de caso que foi operacionalizado a partir da averiguação e análise do que foi dito pelo professor, como também as notas emitidas pela instituição, coletivos e movimentos negros, matérias jornalísticas sobre o caso e entrevista com estudantes. Inferimos que a gramática das relações sociais com foco racial está passando por mudanças de representação, por isso, há “choque” entre os sentidos visados (coordenações formais) entre os atores. Analisamos, sob uma perspectiva weberiana, as relações sociais que se estabeleceram e entendemos que as mesmas são balizadas por probabilidades de ações dentro de um sentido visado pelos atores. Assim, olhamos as ações discursivas dos agentes que proferiram e se justificaram ao perceber a gramática das relações raciais. Para tanto, realizamos uma descrição analítica do caso construindo um aporte teórico, significando e conceituando categorias-chave, como democracia racial. Palavras-chave: Relações Raciais; Racismos; Estudo de caso. Abstract This article sought to discuss the grammar of race relations and racism from the case of a professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Sao Paulo (IFSP) who posted on his Facebook profile and was denounced as racist by some social segment. Methodologically, we elaborated a case study that analyses what was said by the professor, as well as the notes released by the institution, collectives, and black movements, newspaper articles about the case, and interviews with students. We infer that the grammar of social relations with a racial focus is provoking changes in representation, so there is a “shock” between the senses targeted between the actors. We analyze, through a Weberian perspective, the social relations that are established and we understand that they are marked by probabilities of actions within a targeted sense (formal coordination) by the actors. Thus, we look at the discursive performances of the agents who uttered and justified themselves by understanding the grammar of racial relations. For this purpose, we carried out an analytical description of the case by constructing a theoretical contribution, meaning, and conceptualizing key categories such as racial democracy. Keywords: Social Relationships; Racisms; Targeted sense. Resumen Este artículo busca discutir la gramática de las relaciones raciales y el racismo a partir del caso de un profesor del Instituto Federal de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología de São Paulo (IFSP) que hizo una publicación en su perfil de Facebook y fue denunciado por algunos sectores sociales como racista. Metodológicamente realizamos un estudio de caso que se operacionalizó a partir de la captura y el análisis de lo que dijo el docente, así como las notas emitidas por la institución, los colectivos y movimientos negros, los artículos periodísticos sobre el caso y las entrevistas con los estudiantes. Inferimos que la gramática de las relaciones sociales con un enfoque racial está experimentando cambios en la representación, por ello se da un "choque" entre los sentidos mentados por los actores. Analizamos, desde una perspectiva weberiana, las relaciones sociales que se establecen y entendemos que están guiadas por las probabilidades de acciones dentro de un sentido específico (coordinación formal) por parte de los actores. En concordancia, observamos las actuaciones discursivas de los agentes que se pronunciaron y se justificaron al percibir la gramática de las relaciones raciales. Por ello, realizamos una descripción analítica del caso, construyendo una contribución teórica, significando y conceptualizando categorías clave como democracia racial. Palabras clave: Relaciones raciales; Racismos; Direcciones de destino.


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