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Black in Latin America | Cuba: The Next Revolution | PBS

Duration: 51:25 (Full Program)
Program: Black in Latin America #102
Broadcast Date: Apr. 26, 2011

In Cuba Professor Gates finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music of this island are inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce its enormously profitable 19th century sugar industry, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro's Communist revolution in 1959.

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Post Date: April 27, 2011