Critical Perspectives on Race and Revolution:

Ethnographer, choreographer and poet Rogelio Martínez Furé (August 1937- October 2022), whose written performed excavations of the idiosyncracies fugitivities interwoven African Cuban cultural spiritual tapestries is as timeless in acumen unbounded fecundity, leaves a legacy emancipatory erudition. Zanj honors his memory by giving voice to those who, from pulpits scholarship archives orality credos everyday struggle, forage history for clues mysteries palimpsests identity. We are indebted patient disavowal shackles epistemic colonialism, linguistic disciplinary silos, knowledge sacred profane Afro-diasporic storytelling. 2012 was year bicentennial Yoruba-descended carpenter José Aponte’s planned rebellion freedom against slavery, centennial uprising repression Independent Party Color led mambi veterans Evaristo Estenoz Pedro Ivonnet, founding community-based Red Barrial Afrodescendiente (Afro-Descendant Neighborhood Network) Cuba.