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- Title: Looking Into the Nation's Heart: Gloria Rolando's Approximation to 1912 (Watching the Caribbean: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Caribbean Cinema, Part I) (Resena de Pelicula)
- Author : Caribbean Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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Las raices de mi corazon (Roots of My Heart). Directed by Gloria Rolando. English subtitles. Images of the Caribbean, 2001. VHS. 51 minutes. Most Cubans still know very little about the Partido Independiente de Color (PIC), a racially-defined national political party that was created in Cuba in 1908, was declared illegal in 1910, and staged an armed revolt in 1912. Most do not know that the revolt of the PIC in the mountains of Oriente was met with swift military repression, which resulted in the killings of the main leaders of the Party, Evaristo Estenoz and Pedro Ivonet, as well as many of their followers. The precise number of dead is not known: some sources speak of several thousand people killed. Few Cubans know that the repression quickly degenerated into a racist backlash that at the very least threatened the lives and the personal integrity of many black Cubans, most of whom were not related to the Party. They do not know about the goals of the Independientes, who they were, or why they were protesting. Neither Estenoz nor Ivonet are remembered as national heroes, despite the fact that they both fought in the war of independence of 1895 and participated in the struggles for the civil rights of black Cubans during the early years of the Republic.