Mark Sawyer currently holds appointments as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Political Science and with the Bunche Institute for African American Studies at UCLA. He is currently on leave until 2005 as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Program at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1999, he received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty at UCLA in 1999 and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the politics of the African Diaspora, urban politics, African American Political Thought, and a General Education Cluster in Interracial Dynamics. Professor Sawyer has published articles in journals that include: the Journal of Political Psychology, Perspectives on Politics, and SOULS.

• 1. Race cycles, racial hierarchy, and inclusionary discrimination: a dynamic approach; 2. Freedom and discrimination: uneven inequality and inclusion in prerevolutionary Cuba; 3. Race and revolution; 4. Match made in heaven or strange bedfellows? Black radicals in Castro's Cuba; 5. Race and daily life in Cuba during the special period: part I - interview data; 6. Race and daily life in Cuba during the special period: part II - survey data; 7. Racial politics in Miami.

"To my knowledge, Mark Sawyer's Racial Politics in Postrevolutionary Cuba is the first work that approaches that controversy-ridden problematique from as many convergent angles, all of which are deeply informed by a rich personal and not merely theoretical understanding of the subtle and multidimensional issues attached to racism as an historical and structural phenomena. Departing from the three traditional paradigmatic approaches to the question of race politics in Cuba-(continued underneath)

Mark Sawyer currently holds appointments as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Political Science and with the Bunche Institute for African American Studies at UCLA. He is currently on leave until 2005 as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Program at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1999, he received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty at UCLA in 1999 and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the politics of the African Diaspora, urban politics, African American Political Thought, and a General Education Cluster in Interracial Dynamics. Professor Sawyer has published articles in journals that include: the Journal of Political Psychology, Perspectives on Politics, and SOULS.

• 1. Race cycles, racial hierarchy, and inclusionary discrimination: a dynamic approach; 2. Freedom and discrimination: uneven inequality and inclusion in prerevolutionary Cuba; 3. Race and revolution; 4. Match made in heaven or strange bedfellows? Black radicals in Castro's Cuba; 5. Race and daily life in Cuba during the special period: part I - interview data; 6. Race and daily life in Cuba during the special period: part II - survey data; 7. Racial politics in Miami.

"To my knowledge, Mark Sawyer's Racial Politics in Postrevolutionary Cuba is the first work that approaches that controversy-ridden problematique from as many convergent angles, all of which are deeply informed by a rich personal and not merely theoretical understanding of the subtle and multidimensional issues attached to racism as an historical and structural phenomena. Departing from the three traditional paradigmatic approaches to the question of race politics in Cuba-(continued underneath)

Mark Sawyer currently holds appointments as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Political Science and with the Bunche Institute for African American Studies at UCLA. He is currently on leave until 2005 as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Program at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1999, he received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty at UCLA in 1999 and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the politics of the African Diaspora, urban politics, African American Political Thought, and a General Education Cluster in Interracial Dynamics. Professor Sawyer has published articles in journals that include: the Journal of Political Psychology, Perspectives on Politics, and SOULS.

• 1. Race cycles, racial hierarchy, and inclusionary discrimination: a dynamic approach; 2. Freedom and discrimination: uneven inequality and inclusion in prerevolutionary Cuba; 3. Race and revolution; 4. Match made in heaven or strange bedfellows? Black radicals in Castro's Cuba; 5. Race and daily life in Cuba during the special period: part I - interview data; 6. Race and daily life in Cuba during the special period: part II - survey data; 7. Racial politics in Miami.

"To my knowledge, Mark Sawyer's Racial Politics in Postrevolutionary Cuba is the first work that approaches that controversy-ridden problematique from as many convergent angles, all of which are deeply informed by a rich personal and not merely theoretical understanding of the subtle and multidimensional issues attached to racism as an historical and structural phenomena. Departing from the three traditional paradigmatic approaches to the question of race politics in Cuba-(continued underneath)