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- Title
CUBAN TOURISM: IN THE NAME OF PROGRESSIVE POLITICS.
- Authors
St.Martin, Amy; Thompson, Becky
- Abstract
The Cuban government's encouragement of tourism partly reflects Cuba's need for foreign capital made necessary by the decades-long blockade levied against the country by the United States. Ironically, progressive support of Cuba manifested in this travel is undermining Cuba's struggle against racism and patriarchy. In this article the authors examine how, under the guise of supporting a socialist country, tourism has become an embargo-era means of upholding inequalities. The authors open up the discourse of the romance with the Cuban revolution that many progressives play out in their imaginations and a Cuban nationalist discourse, both of which make it difficult to talk openly about internal hierarchies. This becomes another privilege of tourists, in adopting closed discourses on Cuban nationalism, as they do not have to live with the realities that extend from colonization and the U.S. occupations, or the present day policies that produce social inequalities for many Cubans. The authors conclude with suggestions of ways that progressive delegations can break rather than re-inscribe patterns of domination. Key words: racism; prostitution; progressive politics; Cuba; tourism; multiracial feminism; blockade against Cuba; socialism; colonization; imperialism; Cuban revolution.
- Subjects
CUBA; TOURISM; RACISM; EMBARGO; SEX work; FEMINISM; SOCIALISM; IMPERIALISM
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2003, Vol 10, Issue 4, p108
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article