Sarita and the Revolution: Race and Cuban Cinema
Date
2007-04
Authors
Ebrahim, Haseenah
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European Review of Latin American and Carribean Studies
Abstract
This essay explores questions of race and ethnicity in relation to Cuban cinema during the height of the Revolution, focusing in particular on one filmmaker, the late Sara Gómez. This essay argues that while contemporary filmmakers in Cuba have benefited from a growing acceptance of African heritage as an integral component of Cuban culture, Sara Gómez’s interest
in exploring matters of racial inequalities in the Revolutionary Cuba of the
1960s and ’70s forced her to negotiate a rather challenging political and social milieu in which official attitudes frowned upon the acknowledgement of racial discrimination as a contemporary phenomenon.
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Race, Cuban cinema, Sara Gómez