Kiki’s Reviews > Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 > Status Update

No matter how many times I read about it, I am always stunned at how imperialist powers create propaganda and then manipulate the opposing side into fitting that narrative. Spain seh di black Cuban soldiers a walk round naked like savages then go outa dem way to tief Moncada's clothes to rhatid.

Ferrer presents the details about the black/mixed labourers who joined and eventually became war leaders that were absent from Eller's text on DR and its 19th C revolutionary wars. Yes, please.

I'm more excited about this book because Ferrer is more interested in the racial complexities and categorisations in 19th c Cuba than Eller was in 19th c Dominican Republic.