Cuba is located in the northern caribbean where the caribbean sea, gulf of mexico and atlantic ocean meet. Helen yaffe is a lecturer in economic and social history at the university of glasgow. Becoming free becoming black race freedom and law cuba virginia. The united states and the triumph of the cuban revolution. The case it makeswhich is conceptual, normative, historical, and empiricalis persuasive and provocative. In 1899, the mckinley administration settled on occupation as its response to the appearance of a revolutionary government in cuba following the end of spanish control the platt amendment was an addition to the earlier teller. Whats harder to find in english and sometimes even in spanish are books written by people who actually live there. Richard gott, a british journalist and historian with many years experience in latin america, first visited cuba in 1963 and has reported from the island many times since. Cubas academic advantage challenges many prevailing views about the effectiveness of educational markets, school and teacher autonomy, decentralized decisionmaking, and government responsibility for childrens social and economic welfare. Life in the new cuba julia cooke seal press decades later, any optimism in the aftermath of the. Author graham greene had visited cuba several times in the years of the batista dictatorship, and when an early version of the novel set in estonia proved not to be very popular, he decided to change the setting to havana. Oxford university press is the largest university press in the world, publishing in 70 languages and 190 countries. Under pressure from cuban exile leaders who are worried that a research institute known for taking a hardline stance toward the castro regime might change focus, the university of miami announced that it will not enter into any institutional agreements with cubas government or its universities the announcement prompted concerns among some miami faculty members that vocal. Her doctoral thesis was adapted for publication as che guevara.
Business venture united states oxford university press. During the spanishamerican war, the united states maintained a large military arsenal in cuba to protect u. Fidel castro and the quest for a revolutionary culture in cuba. Providing a careful study of all the facets of the virgins role in cuban life, schmidt documents the multidimensional and. America and cuba after the cold war, 19892001 by morris morley. Revolucion cubana was an armed revolt conducted by fidel. Although cuba is simply the background for this story, our man in havana is an interesting look into the countrys life in the 1950s through the eyes of a foreigner. Oxford university press oup academic publishing homepage. Using a monolingual english dictionary is a great way to learn and understand english words. A 2009 study at the university of sussex found that reading can reduce stress by up to 68%, and we think. Peter winn, a fellow of columbia universitys research institute on international change, returned from a. Fictions of feminist ethnography university of minnesota.
Cuban currency is the first book to address the effects on cuban literature of the countrys spectacular opening to foreign markets that marked the end of the twentieth century. It is our mission to further the universitys objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. In brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a racial democracy. Beginning with an overview of the castro regimes program to transform cuban culture as guided by the tenets of marxistleninist ideology, julie bunck first outlines in a broad way the four phases through which the regimes strategy evolved, from 1959 to the present, with a variety of methods triednoncoercive, indirectly coercive, and directly coercive. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. I find the book thoughtprovoking and highly recommendable because of the sensitive, critical and sometimes even surprisingly innovative handling of. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. Jason stanleys how propaganda works is a novel and significant contribution that should revitalize political philosophy. The economics of revolution in 2009 and she is the coauthor of youth activism and solidarity. Since 1995, she has spent time living and researching in cuba. If you are a print subscriber of the cuba free press, saint james press or steelville starcrawford mirror, you can get full access to all the premium content on. Perez is the author of a wide variety of books on cuba. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom not slavery established the meaning of blackness in law.
Business venture teaches students to communicate using american and international english for a range of business situations. Ever since fidel castro assumed power in cuba in 1959, americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the florida keys. From cuban travel guides and travel accounts, to novels set in cuba and scholarly analyses, the book market is filled with various writings about this caribbean island. Cuban musicand more specifically the cuban alternative music scene, of which the cuban underground hip hop movement is a parthas emerged as a recent example of how cubas politicized artivists have been able to create a nascent civil society in a nation that is defined as a totalitarian state, where political activism that challenges. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was. Fictions of feminist ethnography is an ambitious, experimental, comprehensive and learned book directed at a professional anthropological audience. Land and people cuba is the largest and westernmost of the islands of the west indies and lies strategically at the entrance to the. His books include the narrative covenant, we scholars, and meetings of the mind princeton.
Dick cluster, translator of many books by cuban writers, reveals twenty. Wifredo lam and the international avantgarde, 19231982 lowery stokes sims. Beginning with the first written account of the island, penned by christopher columbus in 1492, the selections assembled here track cuban history from the colonial period through the. Oxford university press is a department of the university of oxford. Find out how we make the highestquality academic and professional content available around the globe. Cuba relations in the 20th century by horowitz, irving louis the national interest, spring 2002. Staple definition in the cambridge english dictionary. Florida international university historian miguel a. Although both brazil and the united states inherited european norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining whiteblack relations. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of florida, the cuba reader is an invaluable introduction. Cuba is at a turning point in its history, and for a short time will be that rarity.
The oxford essential dictionary is ideal for children with basic english. Frederik is an ethnography exploring how the meaning of cubania. The third edition of business venture includes increased flexibility in the unit structure, more clarity in the unit layout, and 20 pages of additional practice for. Cuba specialists across the disciplines should benefit from reading this book, as should scholars of civil society and comparative politics and any upperlevel undergraduates or graduate students contemplating fieldwork in cuba during this era of gradual and often confusing change in the meaning of cuban citizenship. Also included are a long letter by richard armstrong describing the machado revolution in cuba and hemingways.
We have published many books on cuba and hope a few of them. List of books and articles about cuban history online. It has resulted in european union sanctions from 2003 to 2008 as well as statements of protest from groups, governments, and noted individuals cuba has ranked low on the press freedom index from reporters without borders from 2002 when the index was established 4th out of 9 to the present 169th out of 180 in 2015. Cubas academic advantage stanford university press. Cuba is a setting in which the questions surrounding its future become the questions all cultures face as social systemspolitical, economic, and otherwisehelp shape human experience. The kennedy tapes inside the white house during the cuban missile crisis 1997 edited by ernest r. However, it didnt mean that some in cuba didnt look at the haitian. Her teaching focuses on latin american and cuban development. More powerfully than an academic study or historical account. David damrosch is professor of english and comparative literature at columbia university and president of the american comparative literature association for 200203. The 44th edition of the journal cuba studies, which was founded in 1970 and which the university of pittsburgh press has been publishing since 1985, includes articles on economic change and the. The cuba reader also describes life in the periodo especial following the cutoff of soviet aid and the tightening of the u.
Cuba and haiti in the age of revolution ferrer, ada on. Project muse promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Morrison analyzes the conditions that supported the social advance and decline of notions of white racial superiority, nationalist projections of. Learning vocabulary ages 1114 oxford university press. By clicking continue or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Race and multiraciality in brazil and the united states.
Information about and books published in the envisioning cuba series, from the. Drawing on interviews with teachers, principals, and policymakers, as well as hours of videotaped. Hip hop and raced citizenship in neoliberal cuba durham, nc and london. Beyond cuban waters item detail university press vanderbilt. During the first half of the 1990s, perhaps the worst part of the. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, project muse is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves. Antiracism in cuba university of north carolina press. The 10 books listed here barely scratch the surface, but will give you a solid foundation for your visit to this beautiful island nation. Praise what makes cachitas streets special is the attention the author gives to the many different contexts within which the virgin has been venerated, supplicated, politicized, and racialized over the centuriescubas tumultuous 20th century in particular. It is our mission to further the university s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. He is the editor of the longman anthology of world literature. Noam chomsky filled with compelling examples, this book examines what propaganda is and what threat bad propaganda poses for democracy. Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in cuba and south florida during the early years of the cuban revolution, devyn spence benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the cuban state to generate social equality.