Assisted by her daughter, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, the author recounts her life as a black woman struggling with prejudice and change in Cuba over the span of 90

Oral history of an elderly black woman recounting the story of her nine decades in Cuba.

This is an illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to

From the forewords: "At a time when Cuba is undergoing immense economic and social changes, race becomes a kind of cultural litmus test for the national identit

This book is an essential addition to the study of comparative black literature of the Americas; it will also fill the gap that exists on theoretical studies ex