When the Cuban Revolution succeeded in overthrowing dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, rebel commander Fidel Castro declared, "The Revolution begins now." Over the next five decades, Castro remade Cuba into a one-party socialist nation. The Cuban Revolution survived attempts to…
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"Ensayos (en inglés) sobre importantes figuras literarias del siglo XX - Nancy Morejón, Alejo Carpentier, Virgilio Piñera, Dulce María Loynaz, José Lezama Lima, y Severo Sarduy - y la creación imaginativa de Cuba y su historia a través de sus textos. Los capítulos finales contie…
"Ensayos (en inglés) sobre importantes figuras literarias del siglo XX - Nancy Morejón, Alejo Carpentier, Virgilio Piñera, Dulce María Loynaz, José Lezama Lima, y Severo Sarduy - y la creación imaginativa de Cuba y su historia a través de sus textos. Los capítulos finales contie…
"Biography of Marta Terry González, director of Cuba's José Martí National Library. Discusses the role of Afro-Cuban in Cuban history and culture and the role of libraries in the context of the Cuban revolution"-
Dans le premier livre consacré à l'activisme des femmes noires pendant la période prérévolutionnaire de Cuba, Takkara Brunson explique comment ces femmes ont lutté contre l'exclusion sur de multiples fronts mais ont joué un rôle important dans la création d'une démocratie modern…
"In Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara Brunson traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts and played an important role in forging a modern democracy. Brunson takes a much-needed intersectional approach to the political …
Introduction: Enacting Citizenship between Abolition and the 1959 Revolution -- "Look for Progress in Our Moral Perfection": Racial Regeneration and the Post-Zanj℗Øn Black Public Sphere -- Writing Black Political Networks during the Early Republic -- Leadership of Recognized Cha…
"In the first book to focus on the activism of Black women during Cuba's prerevolutionary period, Takkara Brunson discusses how these women battled exclusion on multiple fronts but played an important role in forging a modern democracy" Introduction: Enacting Citizenship betwee…
"In the first book to focus on the activism of Black women during Cuba's prerevolutionary period, Takkara Brunson discusses how these women battled exclusion on multiple fronts but played an important role in forging a modern democracy"--
"In the first book to focus on the activism of Black women during Cuba's prerevolutionary period, Takkara Brunson discusses how these women battled exclusion on multiple fronts but played an important role in forging a modern democracy"--
Before we begin -- Why Haydée? -- Early life -- Moncada -- War -- Witnesses -- Casa de las Américas -- Two, three, many vietnams: Haydée and Che -- The woman beneath the myth -- Impossible possibility: elegy for Haydée Santamaría
