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Freddy Ilanga: Che’s Swahili Translator,
Icarus Films
Screening of "Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator" 10/30/2009 Seton
Hall: "Join us for a free screening of "Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator"
on November 5 at 6 p.m. in the Science and Technology Center Auditorium. A
roundtable discussion with film director Katrin Hansing, and professors Maxim
Matusevich and Vincente Medina will follow the screening. This film is a
documentary about Freddy Ilanga, an African man whose life was abruptly
transformed through a chance encounter with one of the great icons of the 20th
Century and which has predominantly been determined by the power struggles of
the Cold War and the Cuban Revolution. It is a story about migration and
displacement and the high human costs caused by states' neglect and disrespect
for individual human rights."
Obituary: Freddy Ilanga Yaite 2/8/2006 The Guardian: "As a boy in the
Congo, Freddy Ilanga Yaite, who has died aged 56, tried to teach Swahili to Che
Guevara during the abortive 1965 Cuban campaign to spark an African revolution.
Then, sent by Che to Havana, he qualified as a paediatric neurosurgeon, becoming
one of that select group who championed Che's ideas and burnished his reputation
in Cuba."
De patria y cultura en tiempos de Revolución (III) 1/14/2021 Cubadebate: "A
las tertulias de Kelly también asistió una condiscípula suya en Georgetown:
Katrin Hansing, profesora de Antropología del Baruch College en Nueva York y
experta en el tema Cuba dentro de la vertiente menos beligerante del diseño de
influencia. El 10 de febrero de 2013 —mientras su compañero de claustro, Ted
Henken, se preparaba para acompañar a Yoani Sánchez en su gira por Estados
Unidos—, Katrin envió a Soros un informe con un título revelador: “Documento de
antecedentes: Cuba”, que concluía: “El actual período de cambio es un momento
oportuno para tender la mano y trabajar con Cuba y los cubanos, para apoyarlos a
convertirse en una sociedad más abierta” (Hansing, 2013)."
When Racial Inequalities Return: Assessing the Restratification of Cuban Society
60 Years After Revolution 3/20/2020 Cambridge University Press: by Katrin
Hansing
When Racial Inequalities Return: Assessing the Restratification of Cuban Society
60 Years After Revolution 3/1/2020 ResearchGate: by Katrin Hansing, Bert
Hoffmann - "Few political transformations have attacked social inequalities more
thoroughly than the 1959 Cuban Revolution. As the survey data in this article
show, however, sixty years on, structural inequalities are returning that echo
the prerevolutionary socioethnic hierarchies. While official Cuban statistics
are mute about social differences along racial lines, the authors were able to
conduct a unique, nationwide survey with more than one thousand respondents that
shows the contrary. Amid depressed wages in the state-run economy, access to
hard currency has become key. However, racialized migration patterns of the past
make for highly unequal access to family remittances, and the gradual opening of
private business disfavors Afro- Cubans, due to their lack of access to
prerevolutionary property and startup capital. Despite the political continuity
of Communist Party rule, a restructuring of Cuban society with a profound racial
bias is turning back one of the proudest achievements of the revolution."
Cuba’s New Social Structure: Assessing the Re-Stratification of Cuban Society 60
Years after Revolution 2/15/2019 German Institute of Global and Area
Studies: by Hansing & Hoffman - "Few political transformations have attacked
social inequalities more thoroughly than the 1959 Cuban Revolution. However, as
the survey data in this paper shows, 60 years on, structural inequalities which
echo the pre-revolutionary socio-ethnic hierarchies are returning. While
official Cuban statistics are mute about social differences along racial lines,
the authors were able to conduct a unique, nationwide survey which shows the
contrary. If the revolutionary, state-run economy and radical social policies
were the main social elevators for the formerly underprivileged classes in
socialist Cuba, the economic crisis and depressed wages of the past decades have
seriously undercut these achievements. Moreover, previously racialised migration
patterns have produced highly unequal levels of access to family remittances,
and the gradual opening of the private business sector in Cuba has largely
disfavoured AfroCubans, due to their lack of access to pre-revolutionary
property and remittances in the form of start-up capital. While social and
racial inequalities have not yet reached the levels of other Latin American
countries, behind the face of socialist continuity a profound restructuring of
Cuban society is taking place."
Cuba's
New Social Structure: Assessing the Re-Stratification of Cuban Society 60 Years
after Revolution 2/1/2019 GIGA: by Katrin Hansing - "Moreover, previously
racialised migration patterns have produced highly unequal levels of access to
family remittances, and the gradual opening of the private business sector in
Cuba has largely disfavoured Afro-Cubans, due to their lack of access to
pre-revolutionary property and remittances in the form of start-up capital.
While social and racial inequalities have not yet reached the levels of other
Latin American countries, behind the face of socialist continuity a profound
restructuring of Cuban society is taking place."
More Black Officials in Power in Cuba as Leadership Changes 4/22/2018 NYT: "Katrin
Hansing, a professor at Baruch College in New York who is studying racial
inequality in Cuba, said the presence of more black people on the council was
likely to be met with a collective shrug on the island. The economic disparities
have grown so stark, she said, that more shantytowns are popping up on the
outskirts of big cities, and people of color largely populate them. “It won’t
change their socioeconomically difficult lives,” Ms. Hansing said. “The
Communist Party will not change because there are three more black people at the
top.” In Cuba, many people interviewed agreed, and some did not even know the
changes had been made."
Race and Rising Inequality in Cuba 2/1/2018 Current History: by Katrin
Hansing - "Given the island’s persistent lack of economic growth, dwindling
supplies of subsidized oil from Venezuela, the Trump administration’s rollback
in US-Cuban relations, and Raúl Castro’s impending retirement, Cuba’s future
remains uncertain. In this context, the island’s social and racial inequalities
are likely to continue growing. It is imperative that both the Cuban government
and the international community introduce responsible economic and development
policies as well as targeted social programs that benefit all Cubans during this
time of change. If not, post-Castro Cuba may sooner or later start to resemble
the island’s deeply unequal prerevolutionary past."
La tercera opción en Cuba: El drama de los equilibristas 6/27/2017 Jiribilla: por
Raúl Antonio Capote, escritor, ensayista, investigador y editor cubano. La
Habana, 1961. Ex agente de la Seguridad del Estado. Durante varios años estuvo
infiltrado en la CIA - "En el 2007 nace el proyecto Génesis, proyecto de la CIA
dirigido fundamentalmente a la juventud cubana[1] y los sectores
revolucionarios. Génesis debía dar sus frutos en un periodo calculado entre unos
10 o 15 años y salir a la luz, en un escenario propicio, donde ya no estarían
los principales líderes históricos de la Revolución. Las nuevas tecnologías de
la información y las comunicaciones e Internet, jugarían un papel fundamental
para la promoción de contenidos y para la movilización. Se debería construir un
entramado de líderes plantados en centros económicos, políticos y sociales del
país. Acoto como interesante que en el proceso de captación de aspirantes a las
becas de liderazgo promovidas por Génesis, se debía priorizar a los cuadros
juveniles de la UJC y la FEU en la Universidad."
Starting a business in Cuba is more difficult for entrepreneurs of African
descent 5/3/2017 Miami Herald: "Among the obstacles encountered by the
Afro-Cuban population to launch a private business is the lack of start-up
capital. Houses for rent on tourist circuits are mostly owned by whites, and
that population also receives more remittances from relatives who live abroad.
According to Baruch College professor Katrink Hansing, about 90 percent of Cuban
Americans are “phenotypically white.”"
Soros y lo hegemónico como alternativo 9/14/2016 Pupila Insomne: por Iroel
Sánchez, reproducido en Cuba Debate - "Como soy cubano no pude sustraerme a la
búsqueda de la palabra “Cuba” en DCLeaks y el hallazgo fue revelador. Un informe
titulado “BackGround Paper: CUBA” fechado en 2013, firmado por Katrin Hansing,
que concluye afirmando algo que es casi exacto a lo planteado reiteradamente por
el Presidente Barack Obama desde el 17 de diciembre de 2014: “The current period
of change is an opportune moment to reach out and work with Cuba and Cubans to
support them to become a more open society”"
AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP 2015 Tax Returns 8/23/2016 Propublica: "In
July, AMI Director, Alexandra Halkin, and Open Society Fellow (OSF) and Cuba
scholar Katrin Hansing, offered two OSF-sponsored screenings of the feature
documentary Cancin de barrio (Song of the Street) at OSF headquarters in New
York City and Washington, D.C. In 2010, famed Cuban musician Silvio Rodriguez
started an ongoing tour through the poorest neighborhoods of Havana. Following
Mr. Rodriguez for two years, Cancin de barrio explores a largely invisible and
silenced Cuba, the complexity of which is revealed through the voices of the
films participants. The screenings were followed by discussions about the
growing income inequality in Cuba, particularly in the Afro-Cuban communities
where the film takes place."
RACIAL
INEQUALITY IN THE NEW CUBA. 10/18/2015 Cuba Counterpoints: By Katrin
Hansing - "Moreover, in the context of a changing economy, new social
stratifications are emerging – and doing so along clearly visible, racial lines.
Inequality and racism, two key issues the Revolution fought hard to eliminate,
are thus once again thriving. This article will explore the forces driving the
growing racial inequalities, specifically migration, remittances and foreign
citizenship during the island’s current market-oriented reforms."
Cuba: las desigualdades se tornan visibles 1/15/2015 Nueva Sociedad: por
Katrin Hansing / Uwe Optenhögel - "Tal vez la dirigencia necesita una mayor
audacia y confianza en la propia población para que no se convierta en realidad
la advertencia profética realizada por Fidel Castro en 2005, cuando dijo: «La
Revolución solo puede ser derrotada desde adentro»."
The Role and Impact of Remittances on Small Business Development during Cuba’s
Current Economic Reforms 6/1/2014 Desigualdades: by Katrin Hansing and
Manuel Orozco - "This paper explores the extent to which Cuban remittance
recipients are responding to the Cuban government’s current economic reforms
which seek to incentivize entrepreneurial activities as an economic growth
strategy and state liberalization policy. In so doing we hope to make some
preliminary observations and recommendations about the potential role and impact
of remittances in Cuba’s socio-economic development. It is based on an original
survey conducted in Cuba in 2012."
Cuba’s Changing Economy: Challenges and Opportunities 12/4/2013 Open
Societies Foundation: "Katrin Hansing (Moderator) teaches at the Free University
Berlin and is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at City
University New York (CUNY). Previously, she was Associate Director of the Cuban
Research Institute at Florida International University in Miami. She currently
serves as a consultant to the Open Society Latin America Program."
For Cuba, a harsh self-assessment 7/24/2013 Progresso Weekly: "Katrin
Hansing, a professor of anthropology at City University of New York, who has
studied Cuban youth, said growing up in an environment where cheating and
duplicity were a way of living had bred cynicism. “This cynicism feeds into
people’s lack of engagement,” she said. “Individual responsibility toward the
collective is very low.” Youth feel alienated from the aging leadership, she
said. “There is a very visual discrepancy between who is running the show and
who’s living it,” Dr. Hansing said. Young people “are living in a parallel
universe.”"
Americas Media
Initiative and the new documentary: “Freddy Ilanga: Che’s Swahili Translator”
dir. by Katrin Hansing 9/28/2011 EthnoCuba
Rasta, race and revolution: Transnational connections in socialist Cuba 8/4/2010 Taylor
& Francis: "Within the past three decades the Jamaican Rastafari movement has
been transformed from a local Caribbean to a global cultural phenomenon. Reggae
music and other popular cultural media have been the primary catalysts in this
international spread of the movement. As a result, Rastafari has lost its
original territorial moorings and become a travelling culture. Global in scope,
Rastafari has nevertheless been localised in very different ways, depending on
where the movement has been appropriated. This article examines the processes
involved in the transnational journey of the movement's ideas, images and music
and the multiple mechanisms involved in its indigenisation with specific
reference to Rastafari's emergence and development in Cuba. In particular it
looks at how the movement has entered the island, why and by whom it has been
taken on, and how it manifests itself locally."
Screening of "Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator" 10/30/2009 Seton
Hall: "Join us for a free screening of "Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator"
on November 5 at 6 p.m. in the Science and Technology Center Auditorium. A
roundtable discussion with film director Katrin Hansing, and professors Maxim
Matusevich and Vincente Medina will follow the screening. This film is a
documentary about Freddy Ilanga, an African man whose life was abruptly
transformed through a chance encounter with one of the great icons of the 20th
Century and which has predominantly been determined by the power struggles of
the Cold War and the Cuban Revolution. It is a story about migration and
displacement and the high human costs caused by states' neglect and disrespect
for individual human rights."
Obituary: Freddy Ilanga Yaite 2/8/2006 The Guardian: "As a boy in the
Congo, Freddy Ilanga Yaite, who has died aged 56, tried to teach Swahili to Che
Guevara during the abortive 1965 Cuban campaign to spark an African revolution.
Then, sent by Che to Havana, he qualified as a paediatric neurosurgeon, becoming
one of that select group who championed Che's ideas and burnished his reputation
in Cuba."
Cuba's Rastas 4/11/2004 Jamaican Observer: "According to Katrin Hansing, an
anthropologist at Florida International University in Miami, "Not only is
(Rastafarianism) now recognised as one of the leading Afro-Caribbean religions,
but also as one of the most popular cultural trends in the world". She points
out that "Rastafari communities and dreadlocked-inspired youth" can be found in
Central America and Brazil, North America and Europe, many parts of Africa, and
among the Maoris in New Zealand, Native Americans in the United States, and
young people in Japan."
www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/anthropology/khansing.htm
Cuba's changing economy: challenges and opportunities
OSF 11/4/2013
www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/cuba-s-changing-economy-challenges-and-opportunities-20131104_0.pdf
"And she is working with Open Society Foundations as a consultant to help us
think through what the potential role-- and value added of the foundations might
be-- with respect to Cuba going forward. And as part of that she has-- is
designing this series of events-- which we'll be holding over the coming
months-- and will be moderating today's session."
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