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To my knowledge, Mark Sawyer's Racial Politics in Postrevolutionary Cuba is the first work that approaches that controversy-ridden problematique from as many convergent angles, all of which are deeply informed by a rich personal and not merely theoretical understanding of the subtle and multidimensional issues attached to racism as an historical and structural phenomena. Departing from the three traditional paradigmatic approaches to the question of race politics in Cuba-(continued underneath) Latin American exceptionalism, Marxian economicism and Black Nationalism Sawyer has broken new grounds that open up fresh analytical possibilities for the comprehension of race politics not solely in Cuba but in general. Indeed, one must keep in mind that, outside of the Haitian Revolution of 1804, the Cuban Revolution represented the most radical revolutionary experiment ever undertaken in race/class reconfiguration in the Western hemisphere. A brilliant analytical work, this book additionally provides a rare moment where objective scholarship and human sensibility fuse to give statistical data a truly human face. Carlos Moore, Author of Castro the Blacks and Africa Sawyer combines personal anecdotes, interviews, survey data analysis, and historical coverage of prominent events to illuminate the complex realities of race relations in Cuba. Highly recommended. Choice

To my knowledge, Mark Sawyer's Racial Politics in Postrevolutionary Cuba is the first work that approaches that controversy-ridden problematique from as many convergent angles, all of which are deeply informed by a rich personal and not merely theoretical understanding of the subtle and multidimensional issues attached to racism as an historical and structural phenomena. Departing from the three traditional paradigmatic approaches to the question of race politics in Cuba-(continued underneath) Latin American exceptionalism, Marxian economicism and Black Nationalism Sawyer has broken new grounds that open up fresh analytical possibilities for the comprehension of race politics not solely in Cuba but in general. Indeed, one must keep in mind that, outside of the Haitian Revolution of 1804, the Cuban Revolution represented the most radical revolutionary experiment ever undertaken in race/class reconfiguration in the Western hemisphere. A brilliant analytical work, this book additionally provides a rare moment where objective scholarship and human sensibility fuse to give statistical data a truly human face. Carlos Moore, Author of Castro the Blacks and Africa Sawyer combines personal anecdotes, interviews, survey data analysis, and historical coverage of prominent events to illuminate the complex realities of race relations in Cuba. Highly recommended. Choice

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Mark Sawyer currently holds appointments as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Political Science and with the Bunche Institute for African American Studies at UCLA. He is currently on leave until 2005 as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Program at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1999, he received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty at UCLA in 1999 and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the politics of the African Diaspora, urban politics, African American Political Thought, and a General Education Cluster in Interracial Dynamics. Professor Sawyer has published articles in journals that include: the Journal of Political Psychology, Perspectives on Politics, and SOULS.

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