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Waves of Decolonization

Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States

by David Luis-Brown, Donald E. Pease
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008

In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so decades before the decolonization...
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Writing to Cuba

Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States

by Rodrigo Lazo
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006

In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence...
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by Xiomara Berland
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

Este libro está lleno de refranes, recetas, historia, poemas y orgullo cubano. Leerlo para las memorias, las recetas de la abuela y para capturar un poco de lo que es ser un cubano.
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Buena Vista in the Club

Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana

by Geoffrey Baker, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011

In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced...
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by Gloria García Rodríguez
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011

Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research...
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United States-Cuban Relations

A Critical History

by Esteban Morales Dominguez, Gary Prevost
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008

United States-Cuban Relations breaks new ground in its treatment of this long and tumultuous relationship. The overall approach, mirroring the political science background of both authors, does not focus on historical detail that has been provided by many other works, but rather on a broad analysis...
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by Dalia Antonia Muller
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017

During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico. But more than a safe haven, Mexico was a key site, Dalia Antonia Muller argues, from which the expatriates helped launch a mobile and politically...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010

Latin American Identities After 1980 takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, it focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Its sound scholarship combines evidence-based...
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Voice of the Leopard

African Secret Societies and Cuba

by Ivor L. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009

In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross...
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by Sinan Koont
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016

"Pushed by necessity but enabled by its existing social and educational policies, Cuba in the 1990s launched the most extensive program of urban sustainable agriculture in the world. This study is to date the only book-length investigation in either English or Spanish of this important national...
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by José Martí y Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Nuestra América es un vasto programa literario que Martí describe en una carta a su amigo Manuel Mercado (carta también presente en este volumen). El libro futuro se dividiría en varios apartados relacionados con diferentes visiones de América, y abarcaría cuestiones políticas relativas al...
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by José Martí y Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

El Diario de campaña de José Martí es una sucesión de apuntes fugaces escritos en Cuba durante la Guerra de Independencia. Aquí se mezclan las reflexiones sobre el destino de una nación con las descripciones del paisaje, de las comidas o los personajes que rodean a su autor. Aunque parezca extraño,...
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by Julián del Casal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Publicadas en la prensa cubana del siglo XIX (en La Habana Elegante, La Discusión y La Habana Literaria) las prosas de Casal destacan por su espíritu reflexivo, agudeza intelectual y vocación de estilo. La presente antología es una breve muestra de los artículos y traducciones de Baudelaire publicadas...
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by Jorge Mañach Robato
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Indagación del choteo fue inicialmente una conferencia pronunciada por Mañach en 1928. En la revisión de 1955 el autor afirma que en gran medida el «choteo» es un vestigio del pasado. Sin embargo, basta una lectura minuciosa de Indagación del choteo para constatar que el choteo es aún en nuestros...
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