freedom is achieved, the Cuban people will be able to fulfill the dreams of liberation, including racial equality and the justice for all that flows from such equality.
When de la Fuente picks up the historical struggle after the Spanish rule, he shows how the dreams for such equality have not been realized, but he also shows that they were not as utterly dashed by postcolonial reality as some pessimists might hold. In fact, de la Fuente walks a middle road between the two extremes. On the one hand are government spokespeople who argue that "There is no racial problem in contemporary Cuba" (de la Fuente 131). On the other extreme "are those who deny that there has been any improvement in race relations in revolutionary Cuba." Such a pessimistic view is held by Cuban exiles and their supporters in the United States, says the author (de la Fuente 131).
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