Cuba’s 1912 racial war reached quasi-genocidal extermination of Black Cubans

Evidence

In 1912, the anti-Black movement in part inspired by American influence in Cuba reached a culmination. The suppression of an association of Black voters, the Partido de los Independientes de Color, led to armed revolt and “the ensuing racial war, still insufficiently studied, led to a nationwide extermination of blacks of quasi-genocidal proportions.” Casal, op. cit., p. 14. This was “the little war of 1912.” Casal recalls as a child listening to the stories in her family: “A grand-uncle of mine was assassinated, supposedly by orders of Monteagudo, the rural guard officer who terrorized blacks throughout the island. Chills went down my spine when I heard stories about blacks being hunted day and night; and black men being hung by their genitals from the lamp posts in the central plazas of small Cuban towns.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2129

Categorization

• XREF: Directs evidence for the downfall of the Black radical tradition, corroborating Robinson’s thesis of white ruling-class restoration across the Americas. — connects to: Suppressing Cuba’s Black voters’ party triggered a quasi-genocidal racial war; Crises afflicting Black peoples have intensified to near-genocidal proportions
• QUESTION: The 1912 ‘little war of 1912’ is described as still insufficiently studied — worth chasing primary sources.
• SEED: An article on the neglected 1912 Cuban racial extermination — a quasi-genocide nearly absent from mainstream accounts of Cuba’s independence.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2129

Broader Connections

• Suppressing Cuba’s Black voters’ party triggered a quasi-genocidal racial war #corroborates (0.70)