Posted on 02/28/2011 12:08:03 PM PST by verdugo
Cuba's official statistics offer little help on the race issue. The 2002 census, which asked Cubans whether they were white, black or mestizo/mulatto, showed 11 percent of the island's 11.2 million people described themselves as black. The real figure is more like 62 percent, according to the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami.
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The disparity between the census' 11 percent and UM's 62 percent also reflects the complicated racial categories in a country where if you look white you are considered white, no matter the genes.
"You know, there are seven different types of blacks in Cuba," said Denny, who now works as a waiter but dreams of a hip-hop career. From darkest to lightest, they are: negro azul, prieto, moreno, mulato, trigueño, jabao and blanconaso.
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Cuba certainly is an incredibly racist country, aren’t they?
“If you look white you are considered white, no matter the genes”.
- “there are seven different types of blacks in Cuba,” From darkest to lightest, they are”:
negro azul - Blue black
prieto - Darky
moreno- brown
mulato -
trigueño- look like a well tanned white guy
jabao - skin is white, but features are not all white
blanconaso- super white looking
Best I an do with the translation. In Catholic cultures we all live together in Ca
Blacks can be racist toward themselves as well as whites.
In the early years, the leading families of Haiti all were of mixed race, and the whiter you were, the higher up the social ladder you were. The more exclusive sections of Port-au-Prince were inhabited by people who more or less looked white.
This lasted through the rule of Papa Doc, and it was very noticeable when I visited Haiti back then. What has happened since then, I don’t know. The black power race-baiters and the Communists tend to go the other way, and insist that the blacker you are, the better. I know things have been in a state of turmoil since Baby Doc was driven out.
My great-grandmother was listed in Ohio’s 1900 census as ‘Colored’. It was the only time, this daughter of Italian-Swiss immigrants, was ever so listed.
Who cares?
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