"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"-
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In this first-person account, Todd Ramón Ochoa explores Palo, a poorly-understood Kongo-inspired 'society of afflication' at the margins of Cuban popular religion. Narrated as an encounter with two teachers of Palo, the book unfolds on the outskirts of Havana.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous "coolie" trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrant…
Introduction: slave, soldier, and Lucumí leader -- Badagry -- The golden age -- La Habana -- Batallón de morenos -- Ṣàngó Tẹ̀ Dún -- New Lucumí from Òyó -- Lucumí war -- Prieto's disappearance -- Conclusion: Prieto's legacy "Centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773…
For review see: Jean Stubbs, in Slavery abolition, a journal of slave and post-slave studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (August 1999); p. 158-159.
This book is a study of Cuba's economic development under communism over the last fifty-five years. The authors find that Cuba's socioeconomic development has gone backward since the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The authors conclude that Fidel Castro's revolution has been an econom…
"The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 was the only slave rebellion in which slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state, making it perhaps the most radical revolution of the modern world. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba, barely fif…
"The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 was the only slave rebellion in which slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state, making it perhaps the most radical revolution of the modern world. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba, barely fif…
"Activating the past explores critical historical events and transformations associated with embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-studies disclose hidden historical references to local and regional encounters with Atlantic modernity, focusing on reli…
Mnima Cuba analyzes the reconfiguration of aesthetics and power during the Cuban postrevolutionary transition (1989 to 2005, the conclusion of the "Special Period"). It explores the marginal cultural production on the island by the first generation of intellectuals born during t…