New World Coming: Race in Socialist Cuba

James Counts Early is joined by scholar and activist Zuleica Romay Guerra to discuss the history of Afro-descendants in Cuba’s historic struggle for liberation, what anti-racism work looks like in Cuba, and the complexities of what comes after revolution. Zuleica is the Director of Afro-american Studies at Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba. This episode features a dubbed translation of Zuleica's responses read by Claudia De la Cruz, Co-Executive Director of The People's Forum.To learn more about James and Zuleica’s discussion, check out our Political Education platform to see resources, texts, and a glossary of terms for each episode!New World Coming is an interview series program produced by The People’s Forum. Our host for this program is James Counts Early, longtime thinker and collaborator of Afro-descendent movements and Black liberation struggles in the Americas. We will be interviewing scholars, activists, and leaders of the African diaspora on lessons from the history of anti-racist organizing.