Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
Cubanos: Un viaje épico
La lucha del exilio por la verdad y la libertad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 15, 2015
En octubre de 1965, el Presidente Lyndon Johnson declaró que el espíritu de Estados Unidos celebra la tradición de asilo para los oprimidos, y prometió al pueblo de Cuba: “quienes busquen refugio aquí lo encontrarán”. Y así fue. Aún antes del discurso del presidente, miles de cubanos llegaban...
To Die in Cuba
Suicide and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world--a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated social...
WRITINGS ON THE SAND
(ESCRITOS SOBRE LA ARENA)
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Writings on the Sand is the authors recollection of his familys lifes story during a time of great turmoil in Cuban history. The authors father was Chief of the National Police in Santiago de Cuba. Following the resignation of President Fulgencio Batista ,his father acted as intermediary to help establish...
The Pride of Havana
A History of Cuban Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2001
From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and...
Cuba's Racial Crucible
The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women...
Waves of Decolonization
Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States
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...
Writing to Cuba
Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
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...
by Xiomara Berland
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
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.
Buena Vista in the Club
Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana
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...
Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
A Documentary History
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...
United States-Cuban Relations
A Critical History
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...
by Sinan Koont
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
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...
by José Martí y Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
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...
by José Martí y Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
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,...