State, Identity and Educacion: one hundred and fifty years of resistance and struggle in Cuba

• Autor(a) principal: Leite, Maria do Carmo Luiz Caldas
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Caldas, Camilo Onoda Luiz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre as Américas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/repam/article/view/27306
• topic: identidade cubana; educação cubana; revolução cubana; cubanía; legado martiano; história de Cuba.; Cuban identity; Cuban education; Cuban revolution; cubanía; Martí legacy; history of Cuba.; identidad cubana; educación cubana; revolución cubana; cubanía; legado martiano; historia de Cuba.

This article refers to the study of the transformations that encompass the society project and tend to follow the historical context in Cuba. Aspects of the tension between the insurgency and the foreign invasion are observed from the Spanish domination, through the mediatized republic, to the present conjuncture of changes, period in which the so-called historical generation is leaving the leadership positions. The discussion has its foundations in the retrospective view of the dilemmas and tensions associated to the construction of cubanía, which has always been the guidelines for the population in all periods. The analyzes are defined in the opposite direction to the eurocentrist vision, that disregards the aspects related to the Cuban revolutions, including the inconclusive and the victorious ones of the XIX and XX centuries, covering a period of 150 years, in which the roots of the cubanidad were materialized. The main evidences of this reflexive exercise demonstrates that the history of the Island produced a base culture of autochthonous characteristics with reflexes in the educational system and that the schools, despite of being affected by difficulties of several orders, represent the cornerstone of the Cuban revolutionary process, which makes  Education as the great social equalizer in the country.