The race/colour question and its political implications in Cuba have been foregrounded recently. A cross-section of Cuban society has encouraged discourses on racial awareness and anti-racist epistemologies as direct or indirect, but positive, outcomes of the encounter with ideas of decolonisation promoted by Black movements and readings of Black Caribbean intellectuals. Through history and the multidisciplinary nature of cultural studies, this article explores regional intersections among Pan-Africanism, Caribbean social and intellectual thought, and some expressions of these ideas in Cuba. It focuses on identity, Black consciousness and the tangential impact of Pan-Africanism as a political ideology on Cuba in three different periods. The author argues that the ideas of Marcus Garvey, Walter Rodney and Bob Marley provide ideologically connecting points in the assessment of cross-cultural connections between Cuba and the Caribbean.

种族/肤色问题及其在古巴的政治影响是最近提出的。古巴社会的各个阶层都鼓吹着关于种族意识和反种族主义认识论的论述，这些论述是黑人运动和黑人加勒比知识分子阅读所推动的与非殖民化观念相遇的直接或间接但积极的结果。通过历史和文化研究的多学科性质，本文探讨了泛非主义，加勒比海社会和知识思想之间的区域交叉，以及这些思想在古巴的表达。它侧重于三个不同时期的身份，黑人意识以及泛非主义作为政治意识形态对古巴的切向影响。作者认为，Marcus Garvey的想法，