Books, Arts & Manners: ‘White Man’s Revolution’ in Cuba

Black Man in Red Cuba

By John Clytus University of Miami, 160 pp., $4.95 The love affair between Fidel Castro and most black militants in the United States appears to have gone pretty much on the rocks. Mutual admiration reached its peak in August 1967 during Stokely Carmichael’s star performance at the Latin American Solidarity Organization conference in Havana; since the widely publicized visits to Cuba by several Black Panther Party (BPP) leaders in 1968, relations have become a good bit less cordial. Although the Panthers still look up to Che Guevara, their admiration recently has not been for Cuba but for their revolutionary comrades in Algeria, North Korea, North Vietnam and Communist China.

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Black Man in Red Cuba

By John Clytus University of Miami, 160 pp., $4.95 The love affair between Fidel Castro and most black militants in the United States appears to have gone pretty much on the rocks. Mutual admiration reached its peak in August 1967 during Stokely Carmichael’s star performance at the Latin American Solidarity Organization conference in Havana; since the widely publicized visits to Cuba by several Black Panther Party (BPP) leaders in 1968, relations have become a good bit less cordial. Although the Panthers still look up to Che Guevara, their admiration recently has not been for Cuba but for their revolutionary comrades in Algeria, North Korea, North Vietnam and Communist China.