Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities …
Jalane D. Schmidt shows how the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, discovered in 1612 and known as Cachita, is a potent and contested symbol of Cuban national identity. She analyzes the five times over the last eighty years Cachita has been celebrated in Cuba's urban streets.
Hipsters and apparatchiks -- Naming the hurricane -- Socialists in Manhattan -- The cultural apparatus of the empire -- Moons of the revolution -- Negroes with guns -- The league of militant poets -- The skin of socialism.
"Author is a Cuban defector and former intelligence agent who claims that he never was a Communist, merely a fidelista. Reader will have to decide the extent to which he may be believed"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past.
"In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty th…
In this contemplative history of Cuba, the author argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as t…
Since 1959, the government of the Caribbean island of Cuba, 90 miles away from the United States of America, has defied its powerful neighbor. The story of the improbable survival of the Cuban Revolutionary Government in its struggle against the most powerful country in the worl…
Since 1959, the government of the Caribbean island of Cuba, 90 miles away from the United States of America, has defied its powerful neighbor. The story of the improbably survival of the Cuban Revolutionary Government in its struggle against the most powerful country in the worl…
Since 1959, the government of the Caribbean island of Cuba, 90 miles away from the United States of America, has defied its powerful neighbor. The story of the improbable survival of the Cuban Revolutionary Government in its struggle against the most powerful country in the worl…