While watching this documentary it came to mind how many Latin American countries with Afro Diaspora population look up to Cuba as an inspiration to recreate their Negritude. In addition to this thought I could not escape from associating the ideas of race and Culture with sex and gender as paradigmes that were (are) tools of segregation in the Americas. Freedom has been a utopia for Latin America since the time of the colonies. Even though we have been able to get rid of colonization in a "logistical" way, it is still part of our culture and education. Anibal Quijano a Peruvian Thinker, Talks in his writing about the term "The Coloniality of Power" and I developed the term "The Coloniality of Knowledge". These two terms talk about how we relate to what is handed (could be information, history, fashion, taste, flavors etc) to us depending its origins.
Racism has been a key segregation tool in the colonies once Spanish and now dominated "remotely" by the US. Demographics across the continent from Canada to Argentina are very similar: "The Darker the poorer". Further more, Racism is not only a construction base on skin color, but also a ideology that bases in many cultural aspects (religion, taste, dance, etc) of the daily life. The use of race through Racism has been a tool of domination and hierarchyzation of societies in the "developing Latin America". On the bright sight of this documentary, and the following chapters of Race and Racism in Latin America, I could argue that Cuba through Social agreements and Government agreements has worked the theme in a more effective way. I find it extremely devastating that the US has no shame to show the world that it has no friends in Latin America but only interests.
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