"Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cr…
"A good comparison of Caribbean revolutions, focusing on ideology, history, leadership, and the international situation. Best analysis is on the Grenadian revolution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
"A good comparison of Caribbean revolutions, focusing on ideology, history, leadership, and the international situation. Best analysis is on the Grenadian revolution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
"This work includes expert analysis and narrative accounts from current Cuban citizens to explore economic, political, legal, and social changes occurring in Cuba under Raúl Castro's presidency. Issues discussed include how Cubans are facing the challenges of an economy emerging…
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This boo…
An examination of the tensions between racism and antiracism in Cuba's struggle to become a nation ... Explores the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868 (when the revolution began), until the intervention of American forces in 1898.
"This book re-examines the role of the intellectual within the revolutionary project in post-Soviet Cuban culture. Through close critical readings of a representative set of contemporary Cuban novels and works of visual art, the author argues that friendship and gender, rather t…
