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Carlos Moore

Born

in Nuevitas, Camagüey, Cuba

November 04, 1942

Genre

Race & Pan Africanism, Political Science, Biography

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1942-1958

Carlos Moore was born Charles George Moore Wedderburn in Cuba in 1942 to Rebecca Winifred Wedderburn and Victor Moore. The fourth of five children, Moore was raised by working class parents who struggled to support him and their other children. During his childhood Moore experienced economic and social hardship which accompanied his parents’ inability to secure regular employment in a racist society. In 1958 when Moore was sixteen years old, his father and step mother sent for him and his siblings to come to New York in order to take advantage of the opportunities for a better life which would be available there.

1958-1974

While Moore was in New York, Castro and his army claimed victory over Bautista which brought renewed hope to poo 1942-1958

Carlos Moore was born Charles George Moore Wedderburn in Cuba in 1942 to Rebecca Winifred Wedderburn and Victor Moore. The fourth of five children, Moore was raised by working class parents who struggled to support him and their other children. During his childhood Moore experienced economic and social hardship which accompanied his parents’ inability to secure regular employment in a racist society. In 1958 when Moore was sixteen years old, his father and step mother sent for him and his siblings to come to New York in order to take advantage of the opportunities for a better life which would be available there.

1958-1974

While Moore was in New York, Castro and his army claimed victory over Bautista which brought renewed hope to poor Cubans everywhere. After living in New York for several years and completing High School, Moore returned to Cuba to work for the Cuban government as a translator for the ministries of Communications and External Affairs. He quickly became disaffected with the Castro regime due to its curtailment of basic rights for all Cubans and racism towards Black Cubans and entered into self imposed exile.

In order to escape Cuba, Moore traveled to Egypt on a cargo ship, where he remained for a year before fleeing the repressive regime there. Moore then traveled to Europe and was denied exile in Italy and Switzerland before being allowed to stay in France on the condition that he arranged repatriation to Cuba. When he refused to return to Cuba, due to fears of imprisonment and/or death the Cuban embassy stripped Moore of his passport. For the next twelve years Moore lived in a state of political limbo as he petitioned for asylum in France. During this time Moore struggled to support himself and his family. He also became involved with the “Afro American Committee in Paris” an organization which organized a rally in support of the revolution in the (former) Belgian Congo where Malcolm X was to be the keynote speaker. When the time for the rally came, Malcolm was denied entry into the country, but Moore was able to conduct a taped interview with Malcolm over the telephone and publish the interview in several magazines. Several weeks later, Malcolm X was assassinated. After years of struggle and harassment by the French secret police Moore is granted asylum and began working as a free lance journalist for Agence France Presse. Shortly thereafter he enrolled in University of Paris-7 to study for his
PhD.

In 1973 Moore was offered and accepted the post of secretariat of FESTAC (Second World Black Festival of Arts and Culture) in Lagos, Nigeria which was emerging from a civil war. During his time in Nigeria Moore met Fela Kuti and formed a relationship with the famed musician which led to the publication of Kuti’s biography Fela, Fela:This Bitch of a life. Due to his association with Kuti and his activities against the dictatorial regime in Nigeria Moore is dismissed from his position as Secretariat and imprisoned.

1975-1991

In 1975 Moore fled Nigeria and settled in Senegal until 1980. While in Senegal Moore conducted research for his Doctoral thesis which he completed in 1979, however past persecution had taken a toll on his health. In 1980 Moore left Senegal for Paris where he was advised to undergo treatment for a nervous breakdown. Despite his ill health, Moore embarked on a second PhD and began working for Jeune Afrique. In 1987 Moore was instrumental in organizing the “Negritude Afro cultures and Ethnicity in the Americas” conference at Florida International University which featured notable persons such as Maya Angelou, Alex Haley, Aime Cesaire, and Leopold Senghor.
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 left Cuba in a precarious position, and Moore wrote a formal letter to Fidel Castro warning him that unless he seriously sought to rectify race relations in Cuba, he could face a revolution that would allow U.S. capitalist interests to impose their imperialistic will upon the ...more

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	Fela: This Bitch of A Life by Carlos Moore, Gilberto Gil (Foreword), Margaret Busby (Introduction) 3.89 avg rating — 437 ratings — published 1982 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pichon: Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba: A Memoir by Carlos Moore, Maya Angelou (Foreword) 4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Racismo e sociedade 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Castro, the Blacks, and Africa by Carlos Moore, Jorge I. Domínguez (Foreword by) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O Marxismo e a Questão Racial 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Were Marx And Engels White Racists?: The Prolet-Aryan Outlook of Marx And Engels 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1977	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Cuban Race Relations by Carlos Moore, Jorge I. Domínguez (Design) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Science is making the world get more and more expensive. When science brings out a new gadget it costs more than the others. People have to earn more to buy it. So science is making the world more difficult, more complex. It makes people run more. What we need is to rest more, talk more, walk more, fuck more and enjoy things in life more. There’s a limit to what Europeans call technological and industrial development. When that”
― Carlos Moore, Fela: This Bitch of A Life

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