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Fugitive States

The Life of Charlie Hill, a Black Radical Exile in Socialist Cuba
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Cuba in the 1970s was a beacon of Third World liberation-and a sanctuary for US radicals on the run. Fugitive States is the true story of Charlie Hill, an American exile who has lived in Havana for 55 years. An Illinois native and war veteran who was expelled from the US Army for refusing to fight against the Vietnamese national liberation forces, Hill later joined the Republic of New Afrika, a dynamic Black nationalist movement that called for reparations for slavery and the creation of a sovereign nation-state for Black people in the American South. Accused of killing a New Mexico state trooper in 1971, Hill hijacked an airplane from Albuquerque to Havana, where the Cuban government granted him asylum. In Havana, Hill hoped to connect with African revolutionaries and to join the armed struggle against colonialism in Angola or Guinea-Bissau; instead, he became the longest-remaining US political exile in Cuba and a witness to five decades of socialism and revolution. Drawing on archival sources and extensive interviews, historian Teishan A. Latner uses Hill's surprising story to illuminate a broader set of encounters between foreign expatriates and the Cuban Revolution during a turbulent era of global radicalism.
Teishan A. Latner is associate professor of history at Thomas Jefferson University.
"Fugitive States is not just a biography of Charlie Hill's growth and misadventures. By telling the story of a little-known Black Power militant, Teishan A. Latner tells the larger story of Black radicalism and everyday life in Cuba. It is the story of socialist Cuba, capitalist America, and the Black radical tradition."-Dan Berger, author of Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey "An utterly fascinating, sweeping history of Black radical exiles in Cuba."-Gerald Horne, author of Revolting Capital: Racism and Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000
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