This volume analyzes Cuban socioeconomic policies and evaluates their performance since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp.
Protestants, revolution, and the Cuba-U.S. bond
"Protestants, Revolution, and the Cuba-U.S. Bond is a rare look at one aspect of civil society in Communist Cuba, the Protestant experience. Theron Corse examines the continuing links between Cuba and the United States that do not focus on diplomatic issues"--BOOK JACKET.
Protestants, revolution, and the Cuba-U.S. bond
An incisive, thorough, and engaging study of the dynamic of Cuban Protestantism, the influence of the United States, and Protestants' struggles with Cuba's revolution.
Introduction -- Are we all Mestizos? : the construction of identity in Latino/a theology -- Are Afro-Latins black? : the construction of blackness in black theology -- Cuban/Cuban-American identity : historical and contemporary perspectives -- La Caridad del Cobre : mother and a…
Comparing Cuban American and African American religiosity, this book argues that Afro-Cuban religiosity and culture are central to understanding the Cuban and Cuban American condition. It interprets this saturation of the Afro-Cuban as transcending race and affecting Cubans and …
U.S.-Cuban cooperation past, present, and future
U.S.-Cuban cooperation past, present, and future
"The United States and Cuba actually cooperate on several issues of mutual interest. This intriguing pattern of U.S.-Cuban cooperation emerged during the 1990s. Naked self-interest led the two governments to cooperate in four areas: illegal immigration, drug trafficking, decreas…
U.S.-Cuban cooperation past, present, and future
To date, there has been little systematic research on these areas of cooperation, from confidence building measures to how Cuban exile groups have attempted to undermine all levels of cooperation with the United States. Melanie Ziegler examines these issues and offers possible s…
Sinan Koont has spent the last several years researching urban agriculture in Cuba, including field work at many sustainable farms on the island. He tells the story of why and how Cuba was able to turn to urban food production on a large scale with minimal use of chemicals, petr…
In the years since the Cuban Revolution, eleven men have served as president of the United States, arguably the most powerful nation on earth. Yet none of them has been able to effect any significant change in the stalemate between the United States and Cuba, its closest neighbo…
In this book, Theresa Singleton examines the rarely studied slave society of Cuba, focusing on the Santa Ana de Biajacas site.
This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped.