102. From Cuba with Love: Juan Rene Betancourt

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The Cuban activist and author Juan Rene Betancourt urges racial solidarity and reckons with the revolution under Castro and the island’s turn towards Communism.

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Further Reading

• J.R. Betancourt, Prejuicio (Camaguey: 1945).

• J.R. Betancourt, Mi Opinion y Mi Raza (Havana: 1948).

• J.R. Betancourt, Doctrina Negra (Havana: 1955).

• J.R. Betancourt, El Negro: Ciudadano del Futuro (Havana: 1959).

• J.R. Betancourt, "Castro and the Cuban Negro," The Crisis 583 (May 1961): 270-274.

• J.R. Betancourt, Naturaleza del Comunismo en America Latina (Buenos Aires: 1962).

• J.R. Betancourt, Sociologia Integral: La Superacion Cientifica del Prejuicio Racial (Buenos Aires: 1964).

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• D.S. Benson, Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution (Chapel Hill: 2016).

• A. de la Fuente, A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics Twentieth-Century Cuba (Chapel Hill: 2001).

• L.A. Glasco, "From Assimilation to Integration: The Narrow Spectrum of Afro-Cuban Ideology: Juan Gualberto Gomez, Evaristo Estenoz, and Juan Rene Betancourt," Diaspora 5 (1996): 97-117. 

• P. Serviat, "Solutions to the Black Problem," in P. Perez Sarduy and J. Stubbs (eds), AfroCuba: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture (Melbourne: 1993), 77-90.

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Adam on 14 July 2022

Robert F Williams

Great episode!  Speaking of Africana Philosophy and Cuba, do you intend to cover Robert F Williams?  I know he's not Cuban, but I was just reminded of him because of how he took asylum there and ran "Radio Free Dixie" out of the country.

Peter Adamson on 14 July 2022

Robert Williams

That's funny, a week ago I wouldn't have known who you are talking about but I have been reading up on the Black Panthers for an episode on them and learned of Williams as a figure who helped inspire the Panthers. I think he will probably just get a mention in passing in that episode, as part of the background.

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Africana Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

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68. Introduction
69. American Negro Academy
70. Curry on Early 20th C.
71. West African Intellectuals
72. African American Socialism
73. Wills on Marxism
74. Marcus Garvey
75. Two Amy Garveys
76. Dawson on Garvey
77. Harlem Renaissance
78. Alain Locke
79. Harris on Locke
80. Professional Philosophers
81. Carter G. Woodson
82. Zora Neale Hurston
83. The Negro Spiritual
84. Later Du Bois
85. Bright on Du Bois
86. Negritude
87. Leopold Senghor
88. Aimé and Suzanne Césaire
89. E. Franklin Frazier
90. C.L.R. James
91. Cox and Williams
92. Claudia Jones
93. Boyce Davies on Jones
94. Richard Wright
95. Ralph Ellison
96. James Baldwin
97. Martin Luther King Jr
98. Krishnamurthy on King
99. Malcolm X
100. Jeffers on Part Three
101. Later Malcolm X and MLK
102. Juan Rene Betancourt
103. Azikiwe & Awolowo
104. Kwame Nkrumah
105. Fanon Black Skin
106. Fanon Wretched
107. Gordon on Fanon
108. Lorraine Hansberry
109. Black Power
110. Black Panthers
111. Maulana Karenga
112. Black Arts Movement
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114. Julius Nyerere
115. Amílcar Cabral
116. Taiwo x 2 on Cabral
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118. Nascimento
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120. Reggae & Rastafari
121. Kuti and Soyinka
122. Steve Biko
123. Walter Rodney
124. Black Feminism
125. Angelou, Morrison, Walker
126. Angela Davis
127. Audre Lorde
128. hooks and Collins
129. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
130. Ngũgĩ interview
131. Black British Cultural Studies
132. Glissant and Créolité
133. Drabinski on Glissant
134. Cedric Robinson
135. Sylvia Wynter
136. African-Centered Thought
137. Asante’s Afrocentricity
138. Critical Race Theory
139. Cornel West
140. Cornel West Interview
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142. Final Chat with Chike