The Cuba reader : history, culture, politics / edited by Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff.

Includes index.

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

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