CRITICAL LOOK AT THE CUBAN HISTORIOGRAPHY CONCERNING THE MARGINALITY OF THE BLACK IN THE LIBERATING ARMY

Abstract

In this look at the Cuban historiography concerning the marginality of the
black in the liberating army, the most significant works that approach this
problematic in Cuba are analyzed. There is revealed that today, after 115
years of the beginning of the independence exploit, it continues without
existing a complete corpus of this phenomenon that gathers the social
behavior during the whole warlike contest (1868-1898) and that is centred
by on the rebellious army. In addition, the study noticed that the marginality,
the discrimination and the racism - between the most marked inheritances
with the slavery and with the culture that from this one begins in Cuba -
was a problem that, though it also affected certain leaders of black race, for
the most part it harmed to the most deprived rebellious blacks, and due to
this it was more difficult to detect, exemplify and consider as a problem that
existed in the rows of the Cuban revolutionaries. Finally, it is made a
recommendation on how to channel the analysis of this still in force
problematic in the black population in Cuba, interlacing the different social
links that join it.