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Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations
Two decades ago affairs between the United States and Cuba had seen little improvement from the Cold War era. Today, U.S.-Cuban relations are in many respects still in poor shape, yet some cooperative elements have begun to take hold and offer promise for future developments. Illustrated by the ongoing migration agreement, professional military-to-military relations at the perimeter of the U.S. base near Guantánamo, and professional Coast Guard-Guardafrontera cooperation across the Straits of Florida, the two governments are actively exploring whether and how to change the pattern of interactions. The differences that divide the two nations are real, not the result of misperception, and thi...
Cuba in a Global Context
Cuba in a Global Context examines the unlikely prominence of the island nation's geopolitical role. The contributors to this volume explore the myriad ways in which Cuba has not only maintained but often increased its reach and influence in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. From the beginning, the Castro regime established a foreign policy that would legitimize the revolutionary government, if not in the eyes of the United States at least in the eyes of other global actors. The essays in this volume shed new light on Cuban diplomacy with communist China as well as with Western governments such as Great Britain and Canada. In recent years, Cubans have improved their lives in the face o...
Cuba’s Military 1990–2005
This book is the first examination of the Cuban military in the context of Cuba's political and economic challenges in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR - and therefore of Soviet economic, political and psychological support. It provides important historical and political contexts of the development and engagement of the military.
Yemoja
Finalist for the 2014 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions presented by the Journal of Africana Religions This is the first collection of essays to analyze intersectional religious and cultural practices surrounding the deity Yemoja. In Afro-Atlantic traditions, Yemoja is associated with motherhood, women, the arts, and the family. This book reveals how Yemoja traditions are negotiating gender, sexuality, and cultural identities in bold ways that emphasize the shifting beliefs and cultural practices of contemporary times. Contributors come from a wide range of fields—religious studies, art history, literature, and anthropology—and focus on the central concern of how different religious communities explore issues of race, gender, and sexuality through religious practice and discourse. The volume adds the voices of religious practitioners and artists to those of scholars to engage in conversations about how Latino/a and African diaspora religions respond creatively to a history of colonization.
Cuban Studies 40
Includes essays on: the role of race in the revolution of 1933; the subject of disaster in eighteenth-century Cuban poetry; developments in Cuban historiography over the past fifty years; a profile of the work of historian Jos Vega Suol; and a remembrance of essayist and literary critic Nara Arajo, who also contributed an article on travel in Cuba for this volume.
Theorizing Sound Writing
The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, while also making an intervention into the ethics of academic knowledge, one in which listening is the first step not only in translating sound into words but also in compassionate scholarship.
El narcotráfico en América Latina
En este libro se explica por qué a fines del siglo XX y a principios del XXI el narcotráfico figura como un novedoso mecanismo de poder económico y político. La producción y el comercio de drogas tiene como propósito exportar sus mercancías al mercado estadunidense y al Primer Mundo. Siendo un elemento que permite comprender de manera más amplia la dinámica en la que se encuentran inmersas nuestras naciones. Analiza el destacado papel que tiene el narcotráfico latinoamericano en la vida económica, política y social de nuestros días. Tema que convierte a este libro, por su enfoque y tratamiento, en una obra imprescindible para comprender uno de los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo.
La verdadera historia de Babalúaiyé
Babalúaiyé (Padre poderoso del mundo) es la forma en que se le ha llamado en Cuba a una de las divinidades más interesantes del África subsahariana, pero no es su único nombre, porque también se le conoce como Asoyín, Asojuano, Shapkuana, Alifreté, Afimayé, Sokuta, Lokuón, Dokunambó y otros muchos. Sin embargo, basta decir San Lázaro, para que, tanto en Cuba como en otros países del Caribe y América Latina, se reconozca de quién se está hablando, porque Babalú es punto de convergencia de creencias africanas y europeas. ste texto nos atrapa desde sus primeras líneas, para llevarnos de la mano por una historia, donde el regocijo y la pena se acompañan de la amistad y el odio, la riqueza y la pobreza, la salud y la enfermedad. Al final de tan disímiles aventuras, aparece una selección de más de veinte canciones en yorubá –acompañadas de una versión en español–, que complementan y enriquecen la historia.
The People of the River
In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and environmental history to connect them intimately to the natural landscape and to Indigenous peoples. Relying on this world as a repository for traditions, discourses, and strategies that they retrieved especially in moments of conflict, Afro-Brazilians fought for autonomous communities and developed a vibrant ethnic identity that supported their struggles over labor, land, and citizenship. Prior to abolition, enslaved and escaped blacks found in the tropical forest a source for tools, weapons, and ...
