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Black in Latin America: Cuba's Racism Problem

Institutional racism in Cuba has been outlawed for decades, but in this installment of The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates' PBS special, it's clear that "racism of the heart" is still very much alive. Find out how the struggle against it is being waged under a system in which, as Gates notes, "Declaring that racism…

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April 25, 2011

Institutional racism in Cuba has been outlawed for decades, but in this installment of The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates' PBS special, it's clear that "racism of the heart" is still very much alive. Find out how the struggle against it is being waged under a system in which, as Gates notes, "Declaring that racism exists can be judged a seditious criticism of the government."

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