José M. Capmany

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José M. Capmany

Best known for co-authoring a sharp, early account of racial conflict in Cuba, this Spanish-language writer is represented today mainly through historical library records and public-domain editions. The surviving trail is faint, which gives the work an archival, rediscovered feel.

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Guerra de razas (Negros contra Blancos en Cuba)

Guerra de razas (Negros contra Blancos en Cuba)

by Rafael Conte, José M. Capmany

About the author

José M. Capmany appears in library and public-domain records as a co-author of Guerra de razas: negros contra blancos en Cuba, written with Rafael Conte. The book has been preserved in major catalog systems and is also listed by Project Gutenberg, which is why the name still surfaces for modern readers.

Little reliable biographical information about the person behind the byline was available in the sources I could confirm here. Because of that, it is safer to describe Capmany as a historical author known through this surviving work rather than to repeat uncertain personal details.

For audiobook listeners, that makes the interest partly literary and partly documentary: Capmany is connected to a text that opens a window onto the language, politics, and tensions of its era.