The Cuba reader : history, culture, politics /
The Cuba reader : history, culture, politics /
edited by Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff.
- ix, 723 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Latin America readers .
- Latin America readers. .
Includes index.
Indigenous Society and Conquest -- Christopher Columbus "Discovers" Cuba / The Devastation of the Indies / Spanish Officials and Indigenous Resistance / A World Destroyed / "Transculturation" and Cuba / Survival Stories / Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism -- A Physician's Notes on Cuba / The Death of the Forest / Autobiography of a Slave / Biography of a Runaway Slave / Fleeing Slavery / Santiago de Cuba's Fugitive Slaves / Rumba / The Trade in Chinese Laborers / Life on a Coffee Plantation / Cuba's First Railroad / The Color Line / Abolition! / Cecilia Valdes / Sab / An Afro-Cuban Poet / The Struggle for Independence -- Freedom and Slavery / Memories of a Cuban Girl / Jose Marti's "Our America" / Guantanamera / The Explosion of the Maine / U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba / The Devastation of Counterinsurgency / Neocolonialism -- The Platt Amendment / Imperialism and Sanitation / A Child of the Platt Amendment / Spain in Cuba / The Independent Party of Color / A Survivor / Rachel's Song / Honest Women / Generals and Doctors / A Crucial Decade / Afrocubanismo and Son / Drums in My Eyes / Abakua / The First Wave of Cuban Feminism / Life at the Mill / Migrant Workers in the Sugar Industry / The Cuban Counterpoint / The Invasion of the Tourists / Waiting Tables in Havana / The Brothel of the Caribbean / A Prostitute Remembers / Sugarcane / Where Is Cuba Headed? / The Chase / The Fall of Machado / Sugar Mills and Soviets / The United States Confronts the 1933 Revolution / The Political Gangster / The United Fruit Company in Cuba / Cuba's Largest Inheritance / The Last Call / For Us, It Is Always the 26th of July / Three Comandantes Talk It Over / History Will Absolve Me / Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War / The United States Rules Cuba, 1952-1958 / The Cuban Story in the New York Times / Building a New Society -- And Then Fidel Arrived / Tornado / Castro Announces the Revolution / How the Poor Got More / Fish a la Grande Jardiniere / Women in the Swamps / Man and Socialism / In the Fist of the Revolution / The Agrarian Revolution / 1961: The Year of Education / The Literacy Campaign / The "Rehabilitation" of Prostitutes / The Family Code / Homosexuality, Creativity, Dissidence / The Original Sin / Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing / Silence on Black Cuba / Black Man in Red Cuba / Post-modern Maroon in the Ultimate Palenque / From Utopianism to Institutionalization / Carlos Puebla Sings about the Economy / Culture and Revolution -- Caliban / For an Imperfect Cinema / Dance and Social Change / Revolutionary Sport / Mea Cuba / In Hard Times / The Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba's Patron Saint / A Conversation on Santeria and Palo Monte / The Catholic Church and the Revolution / Havana's Jewish Community / The Cuban Revolution and the World -- The Venceremos Brigades / The Cuban Revolution and the New Left / The U.S. Government Responds to Revolution / Castro Calls on Cubans to Resist the Counterrevolution / Operation Mongoose / Offensive Missiles on That Imprisoned Island / Inconsolable Memories: A Cuban View of the Missile Crisis / The Assassination Plots / Cuban Refugee Children / From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants / Wrong Channel / We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? / City on the Edge / Singing for Nicaragua / Cuban Medical Diplomacy / The "Periodo Especial" and the Future of the Revolution -- Silvio Rodriguez Sings of the Special Period / From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary / The Revolution Turns Forty / Colonizing the Cuban Body / Pope John Paul II Speaks in Cuba / Emigration in the Special Period / The Old Man and the Boy / Civil Society / Forty Years Later / A Dissident Speaks Out / One More Assassination Plot / An Errand in Havana / No Turning Back for Johnny / Christopher Columbus -- Bartolome de Las Casas -- Various Spanish Officials -- Juan Perez de la Riva -- Fernando Ortiz -- Jose Barreiro -- John G. F. Wurdemann -- Manuel Moreno Fraginals -- Juan Francisco Manzano -- Miguel Barnet -- Miguel Barnet, Pedro Deschamps Chapeaux, Rafael Garcia and Rafael Duharte -- Rafael Duharte -- Yvonne Daniel -- Richard Dana -- John G. F. Wurdemann -- David Turnbull -- Jose Antonio Saco -- Father Felix Varela -- Cirilo Villaverde -- Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda y Arteaga -- Placido -- Carlos Manuel de Cespedes -- Renee Mendez Capote -- Jose Marti -- Jose Marti -- New York Journal -- John J. Johnson -- Fifty-fifth Congress, Second Session -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Nancy Stepan -- Renee Mendez Capote -- Manuel Moreno Fraginals -- El Partido Independiente de Color -- Isidoro Santos Carrera -- Miguel Barnet -- Miguel de Carrion -- Carlos Loveira -- Lolo de la Torriente -- Robin Moore -- Nicolas Guillen -- Rafael Lopez Valdes -- Ofelia Dominguez Navarro -- Ursinio Rojas -- Levi Marrero -- Fernando Ortiz -- Rosalie Schwartz -- Cipriano Chinea Palero and Lynn Geldof -- Tomas Fernandez Robaina -- Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis and Susan M. Rigdon -- Nicolas Guillen -- Julio Antonio Mella -- Alejo Carpentier -- R. Hart Phillips -- Salvador Rionda -- Sumner Welles and Cordell Hull -- Samuel Farber -- Oscar Zanetti -- Bohemia -- Eduardo A. Chibas -- Carlos Puebla -- Carlos Franqui -- Fidel Castro -- Che Guevara -- Morris Morley -- Herbert L. Matthews -- Carlos Puebla -- Silvio Rodriguez -- Fidel Castro -- Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins and Michael Scott -- Humberto Arenal -- Margaret Randall -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara -- Jose Yglesias -- Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins and Michael Scott -- Richard R. Fagen -- Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis and Susan M. Rigdon -- Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis and Susan M. Rigdon -- Margaret Randall -- Reinaldo Arenas -- Pablo Milanes -- Nancy Morejon -- Carlos Moore -- John Clytus -- Christian Parenti -- Juan Antonio Blanco and Medea Benjamin -- Carlos Puebla -- Roberto Fernandez Retamar -- Julio Garcia Espinosa -- Yuonne Daniel -- Paula Pettavino and Geralyn Pye -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- Heberto Padilla -- Olga Portuondo Zuniga -- Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis and Susan M. Rigdon -- Ernesto Cardenal -- Tom Miller -- Sandra Levinson -- Van Gosse -- Foreign Relations of the United States -- Fidel Castro -- Edward Lansdale -- John F. Kennedy -- Edmundo Desnoes -- Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities -- Bryan O. Walsh -- Felix Roberto Masud-Piloto -- Roberto Fernandez -- Achy Obejas -- Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick -- Silvio Rodriguez -- Julie Feinsilver -- Silvio Rodriguez -- Susan Eckstein -- Saul Landau -- G. Derrick Hodge -- Pope John Paul II -- Steve Fainaru and Ray Sanchez -- John Lee Anderson -- Haroldo Dilla -- Senel Paz -- Elizardo Sanchez Santacruz -- Juan Tamayo -- Miguel Barnet -- David Mitrani. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII.
0822331845 9780822331841 0822331977 9780822331971
2003013448
Cuba--History
F1776 / .C85 2003
972.91
Includes index.
Indigenous Society and Conquest -- Christopher Columbus "Discovers" Cuba / The Devastation of the Indies / Spanish Officials and Indigenous Resistance / A World Destroyed / "Transculturation" and Cuba / Survival Stories / Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism -- A Physician's Notes on Cuba / The Death of the Forest / Autobiography of a Slave / Biography of a Runaway Slave / Fleeing Slavery / Santiago de Cuba's Fugitive Slaves / Rumba / The Trade in Chinese Laborers / Life on a Coffee Plantation / Cuba's First Railroad / The Color Line / Abolition! / Cecilia Valdes / Sab / An Afro-Cuban Poet / The Struggle for Independence -- Freedom and Slavery / Memories of a Cuban Girl / Jose Marti's "Our America" / Guantanamera / The Explosion of the Maine / U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba / The Devastation of Counterinsurgency / Neocolonialism -- The Platt Amendment / Imperialism and Sanitation / A Child of the Platt Amendment / Spain in Cuba / The Independent Party of Color / A Survivor / Rachel's Song / Honest Women / Generals and Doctors / A Crucial Decade / Afrocubanismo and Son / Drums in My Eyes / Abakua / The First Wave of Cuban Feminism / Life at the Mill / Migrant Workers in the Sugar Industry / The Cuban Counterpoint / The Invasion of the Tourists / Waiting Tables in Havana / The Brothel of the Caribbean / A Prostitute Remembers / Sugarcane / Where Is Cuba Headed? / The Chase / The Fall of Machado / Sugar Mills and Soviets / The United States Confronts the 1933 Revolution / The Political Gangster / The United Fruit Company in Cuba / Cuba's Largest Inheritance / The Last Call / For Us, It Is Always the 26th of July / Three Comandantes Talk It Over / History Will Absolve Me / Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War / The United States Rules Cuba, 1952-1958 / The Cuban Story in the New York Times / Building a New Society -- And Then Fidel Arrived / Tornado / Castro Announces the Revolution / How the Poor Got More / Fish a la Grande Jardiniere / Women in the Swamps / Man and Socialism / In the Fist of the Revolution / The Agrarian Revolution / 1961: The Year of Education / The Literacy Campaign / The "Rehabilitation" of Prostitutes / The Family Code / Homosexuality, Creativity, Dissidence / The Original Sin / Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing / Silence on Black Cuba / Black Man in Red Cuba / Post-modern Maroon in the Ultimate Palenque / From Utopianism to Institutionalization / Carlos Puebla Sings about the Economy / Culture and Revolution -- Caliban / For an Imperfect Cinema / Dance and Social Change / Revolutionary Sport / Mea Cuba / In Hard Times / The Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba's Patron Saint / A Conversation on Santeria and Palo Monte / The Catholic Church and the Revolution / Havana's Jewish Community / The Cuban Revolution and the World -- The Venceremos Brigades / The Cuban Revolution and the New Left / The U.S. Government Responds to Revolution / Castro Calls on Cubans to Resist the Counterrevolution / Operation Mongoose / Offensive Missiles on That Imprisoned Island / Inconsolable Memories: A Cuban View of the Missile Crisis / The Assassination Plots / Cuban Refugee Children / From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants / Wrong Channel / We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? / City on the Edge / Singing for Nicaragua / Cuban Medical Diplomacy / The "Periodo Especial" and the Future of the Revolution -- Silvio Rodriguez Sings of the Special Period / From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary / The Revolution Turns Forty / Colonizing the Cuban Body / Pope John Paul II Speaks in Cuba / Emigration in the Special Period / The Old Man and the Boy / Civil Society / Forty Years Later / A Dissident Speaks Out / One More Assassination Plot / An Errand in Havana / No Turning Back for Johnny / Christopher Columbus -- Bartolome de Las Casas -- Various Spanish Officials -- Juan Perez de la Riva -- Fernando Ortiz -- Jose Barreiro -- John G. F. Wurdemann -- Manuel Moreno Fraginals -- Juan Francisco Manzano -- Miguel Barnet -- Miguel Barnet, Pedro Deschamps Chapeaux, Rafael Garcia and Rafael Duharte -- Rafael Duharte -- Yvonne Daniel -- Richard Dana -- John G. F. Wurdemann -- David Turnbull -- Jose Antonio Saco -- Father Felix Varela -- Cirilo Villaverde -- Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda y Arteaga -- Placido -- Carlos Manuel de Cespedes -- Renee Mendez Capote -- Jose Marti -- Jose Marti -- New York Journal -- John J. Johnson -- Fifty-fifth Congress, Second Session -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Nancy Stepan -- Renee Mendez Capote -- Manuel Moreno Fraginals -- El Partido Independiente de Color -- Isidoro Santos Carrera -- Miguel Barnet -- Miguel de Carrion -- Carlos Loveira -- Lolo de la Torriente -- Robin Moore -- Nicolas Guillen -- Rafael Lopez Valdes -- Ofelia Dominguez Navarro -- Ursinio Rojas -- Levi Marrero -- Fernando Ortiz -- Rosalie Schwartz -- Cipriano Chinea Palero and Lynn Geldof -- Tomas Fernandez Robaina -- Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis and Susan M. Rigdon -- Nicolas Guillen -- Julio Antonio Mella -- Alejo Carpentier -- R. Hart Phillips -- Salvador Rionda -- Sumner Welles and Cordell Hull -- Samuel Farber -- Oscar Zanetti -- Bohemia -- Eduardo A. Chibas -- Carlos Puebla -- Carlos Franqui -- Fidel Castro -- Che Guevara -- Morris Morley -- Herbert L. Matthews -- Carlos Puebla -- Silvio Rodriguez -- Fidel Castro -- Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins and Michael Scott -- Humberto Arenal -- Margaret Randall -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara -- Jose Yglesias -- Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins and Michael Scott -- Richard R. Fagen -- Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis and Susan M. Rigdon -- Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis and Susan M. Rigdon -- Margaret Randall -- Reinaldo Arenas -- Pablo Milanes -- Nancy Morejon -- Carlos Moore -- John Clytus -- Christian Parenti -- Juan Antonio Blanco and Medea Benjamin -- Carlos Puebla -- Roberto Fernandez Retamar -- Julio Garcia Espinosa -- Yuonne Daniel -- Paula Pettavino and Geralyn Pye -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- Heberto Padilla -- Olga Portuondo Zuniga -- Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis and Susan M. Rigdon -- Ernesto Cardenal -- Tom Miller -- Sandra Levinson -- Van Gosse -- Foreign Relations of the United States -- Fidel Castro -- Edward Lansdale -- John F. Kennedy -- Edmundo Desnoes -- Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities -- Bryan O. Walsh -- Felix Roberto Masud-Piloto -- Roberto Fernandez -- Achy Obejas -- Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick -- Silvio Rodriguez -- Julie Feinsilver -- Silvio Rodriguez -- Susan Eckstein -- Saul Landau -- G. Derrick Hodge -- Pope John Paul II -- Steve Fainaru and Ray Sanchez -- John Lee Anderson -- Haroldo Dilla -- Senel Paz -- Elizardo Sanchez Santacruz -- Juan Tamayo -- Miguel Barnet -- David Mitrani. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII.
0822331845 9780822331841 0822331977 9780822331971
2003013448
Cuba--History
F1776 / .C85 2003
972.91