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Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution
Organized labor in the 1950s -- A crisis of productivity -- The employers' offensive -- Workers take stock -- Responses to state terror -- Two strikes -- Last days of Batista -- The first year of the new Cuba -- Conclusion: what was the role of organized labor in the Cuban insurrection?
Voices of the Race
Introduces English-language readers to a rich body of Black writing that is virtually unknown in the United States.
The Subject of Revolution
From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. Drawing on sources from over twenty archives as well as film, music, theater, and material culture, this book traces the consolidation of the Revolution over two decades in the interface between political and popular culture. The “subject of Revolution,” it proposes, should be understood as the evolving synthesis of the imaginaries constructed by its many “subjects,” including revolutionary leaders, activists, academics, and ordinary people within and beyond the island’s borders. The book reopens some of the questions that have long animated debates about Cuba, from the relationship between populace and leadership to the archive and its limits, while foregrounding the construction of popular understandings. It argues that the politicization of everyday life was an inescapable effect of the revolutionary process as well as the catalyst for new ways of knowing and being.
Historical Dictionary of Cuba
This work is a completely new Historical Dictionary for Cuba (the first since 1988). It gives a comprehensive and detailed coverage and analysis of all of the key elements, factors, biographies, narratives, and treaties in Cuban history from the 1400s to the present day, with an emphasis on the decades after 1959. Historical Dictionary of Cuba, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Cuba.
Empire's Guest Workers
An innovative analysis of Haitian migrant experience, central to the exploration of race, politics, and development during US military occupation in Cuba.
Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-century Colonial Cuba
Investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves Scholars have long recognized the importance of gender and hierarchy in the slave societies of the New World, yet gendered analysis of Cuba has lagged behind study of other regions. Cuban elites recognized that creating and maintaining the Cuban slave society required a rigid social hierarchy based on race, gender, and legal status. Given the dramatic changes that came to Cuba in the wake of the Haitian Revolution and the growth of the enslaved population, the maintenance of order required a patriarchy that placed both women and slaves among the lower ranks. Based on a variety of archival and p...
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.
El semblante de la nación
El semblante de la nación. Dos siglos de constitucionalismo cubano es una pieza escrita con no pocas singularidades dentro del entorno bibliográfico del derecho nacional. La presente obra realiza un estudio diacrónico-sincrónico. En el primer capítulo efectúa una panorámica histórica-política-constitucional, que sienta las bases para realizar, en los siguientes apartados, el examen longitudinal de tres variables torales del constitucionalismo: la forma de poder, la declaración de derechos y el control de constitucionalidad. En cada ocasión engrana los análisis con doctrina, reflexiona críticamente, enmarca las temáticas en el derecho comparado. Es un estudio holístico del derecho constitucional cubano que devela el rostro político-jurídico de la nación. Resume casi cuatro lustros de ejercicio académico. Sintetiza decenas de trabajos científicos publicados, entre artículos, capítulos y libros, sobre el saber constitucional cubano.
El Negro en Cuba. Colonia, República, Revolución
Esta obra indaga, para el público común y el especializado, en lo profundo de nuestras raíces africanas. Pretende resaltar, continuando la tradición de Fernando Ortiz, aquellas zonas olvidadas o evadidas por el discurso historiográfico, en las que cobra importancia la participación del afro-descendiente cubano.
