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Overview

Revolutionary black nationalist Carlos Moore breaks three decades of silence to challenge Castro’s legacy in this controversial, behind-the-scenes memoir that explores the Revolution from a perspective of a pichón, the racist Cuban term for a black of Haitian or West Indian descent. After more than thirty years in exile, continually under the threat of retribution from the Cuban regime, Moore steps forward to reveal the truth: Fidel’s Revolution was a success for white Marxists. But for Cuban blacks, the Revolution was basically business as usual, a cover-up of their ongoing struggle for racial, political, and social enfranchisement. Fidel Castro and his men rose from the ranks of the patriarchal, white Spanish-Cuban elite, and the Revolution did not weaken those ties.

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Moore's Jamaican parents immigrated to Cuba "in search of a better life," but the author's own search took him from Cuba, "where black skin and African features were despised," to the United States, where "Negroes were rich and famous and powerful," and on to peripatetic global travels. He was present at historic moments around the world but oddly, takes a lackadaisical approach (in February 1960, four black students "initiated what was thereafter called a sit-in... in March, the massacre of unarmed black protestors... in South Africa brought the term apartheid into my vocabulary"). Moore's prose is uncommonly bland and wooden, though startling images surface occasionally; details of his teenaged sexual obsession with white women ("the ultimate conquest for me") and details of his bureaucratic encounters are overdrawn. Moore's passion to reveal that "Castro's limitations on the questions of race were glaring from the start" is buried under too much self-absorption. According to Moore, Alex Haley told him, "It's one hell of a story.... You must write a book." Perhaps in Haley's hands, Moore's story might have gained the clarity of focus and freshness of voice it lacks. (Nov.)

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Documented with poignant vigor.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781556527678
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 11/1/2008
  • Pages: 416
  • Sales rank: 1,148,836
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Carlos Moore is an international writer and the author of books in several languages. Formerly a senior lecturer at the Institute of International Relations of the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, and a visiting professor at Florida International University, Miami, he is an honorary research fellow in the UWI School for Graduate Studies and Research, Kingston, Jamaica. Moore resides in Brazil with his family, where he devotes his time to writing and research on race.

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