Authors: Aviva Chomsky (Editor), Barry Carr (Editor), Pamela Maria Smorkaloff (Editor), Robin Kirk (Editor), Orin Starn
ISBN-13: 9780822331971, ISBN-10: 0822331977
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College. She is the author of West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1940 and coeditor of Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (published by Duke University Press).
Barry Carr is Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Marxism and Communism in Twentieth-Century Mexico and coeditor of The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika.
Pamela Maria Smorkaloff is Director of Latin American and Latino Studies and Assistant Professor of Spanish at Montclair State University. She is the author of Cuban Writers on and off the Island: Contemporary Narrative Fiction and Readers and Writers in Cuba: A Social History of Print Culture, 1830s–1990s and editor of If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean.
The essential collection of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, history and cultral writing from and about Cuba. The latest in the series that also includes the Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru Readers.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
I | Indigenous Society and Conquest | |
Christopher Columbus "Discovers" Cuba | 9 | |
The Devastation of the Indies | 12 | |
Spanish Officials and Indigenous Resistance | 15 | |
A World Destroyed | 20 | |
"Transculturation" and Cuba | 26 | |
Survival Stories | 28 | |
II | Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism | |
A Physician's Notes on Cuba | 39 | |
The Death of the Forest | 44 | |
Autobiography of a Slave | 49 | |
Biography of a Runaway Slave | 58 | |
Fleeing Slavery | 65 | |
Santiago de Cuba's Fugitive Slaves | 69 | |
Rumba | 74 | |
The Trade in Chinese Laborers | 79 | |
Life on a Coffee Plantation | 83 | |
Cuba's First Railroad | 88 | |
The Color Line | 91 | |
Abolition! | 94 | |
Cecilia Valdes | 97 | |
Sab | 103 | |
An Afro-Cuban Poet | 110 | |
III | The Struggle for Independence | |
Freedom and Slavery | 115 | |
Memories of a Cuban Girl | 118 | |
Jose Marti's "Our America" | 122 | |
Guantanamera | 128 | |
The Explosion of the Maine | 130 | |
U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba | 135 | |
The Devastation of Counterinsurgency | 139 | |
IV | Neocolonialism | |
The Platt Amendment | 147 | |
Imperialism and Sanitation | 150 | |
A Child of the Platt Amendment | 154 | |
Spain in Cuba | 157 | |
The Independent Party of Color | 163 | |
A Survivor | 167 | |
Rachel's Song | 171 | |
Honest Women | 180 | |
Generals and Doctors | 186 | |
A Crucial Decade | 189 | |
Afrocubanismo and Son | 192 | |
Drums in My Eyes | 201 | |
Abakua | 212 | |
The First Wave of Cuban Feminism | 219 | |
Life at the Mill | 226 | |
Migrant Workers in the Sugar Industry | 234 | |
The Cuban Counterpoint | 239 | |
The Invasion of the Tourists | 244 | |
Waiting Tables in Havana | 253 | |
The Brothel of the Caribbean | 257 | |
A Prostitute Remembers | 260 | |
Sugarcane | 264 | |
Where Is Cuba Headed? | 265 | |
The Chase | 270 | |
The Fall of Machado | 274 | |
Sugar Mills and Soviets | 281 | |
The United States Confronts the 1933 Revolution | 283 | |
The Political Gangster | 287 | |
The United Fruit Company in Cuba | 290 | |
Cuba's Largest Inheritance | 296 | |
The Last Call | 298 | |
For Us, It Is Always the 26th of July | 300 | |
Three Comandantes Talk It Over | 302 | |
History Will Absolve Me | 306 | |
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War | 315 | |
The United States Rules Cuba, 1952-1958 | 321 | |
The Cuban Story in the New York Times | 326 | |
V | Building a New Society | |
And Then Fidel Arrived | 337 | |
Tornado | 340 | |
Castro Announces the Revolution | 341 | |
How the Poor Got More | 344 | |
Fish a la Grande Jardiniere | 354 | |
Women in the Swamps | 363 | |
Man and Socialism | 370 | |
In the Fist of the Revolution | 375 | |
The Agrarian Revolution | 378 | |
1961: The Year of Education | 386 | |
The Literacy Campaign | 389 | |
The "Rehabilitation" of Prostitutes | 395 | |
The Family Code | 399 | |
Homosexuality, Creativity, Dissidence | 406 | |
The Original Sin | 412 | |
Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing | 414 | |
Silence on Black Cuba | 419 | |
Black Man in Red Cuba | 424 | |
Post-modern Maroon in the Ultimate Palenque | 427 | |
From Utopianism to Institutionalization | 433 | |
Carlos Puebla Sings about the Economy | 443 | |
VI | Culture and Revolution | |
Caliban | 451 | |
For an Imperfect Cinema | 458 | |
Dance and Social Change | 466 | |
Revolutionary Sport | 475 | |
Mea Cuba | 481 | |
In Hard Times | 488 | |
The Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba's Patron Saint | 490 | |
A Conversation on Santeria and Palo Monte | 498 | |
The Catholic Church and the Revolution | 505 | |
Havana's Jewish Community | 509 | |
VII | The Cuban Revolution and the World | |
The Venceremos Brigades | 517 | |
The Cuban Revolution and the New Left | 526 | |
The U.S. Government Responds to Revolution | 530 | |
Castro Calls on Cubans to Resist the Counterrevolution | 536 | |
Operation Mongoose | 540 | |
Offensive Missiles on That Imprisoned Island | 544 | |
Inconsolable Memories: A Cuban View of the Missile Crisis | 547 | |
The Assassination Plots | 552 | |
Cuban Refugee Children | 557 | |
From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants | 561 | |
Wrong Channel | 566 | |
We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? | 568 | |
City on the Edge | 581 | |
Singing for Nicaragua | 588 | |
Cuban Medical Diplomacy | 590 | |
VIII | The "Periodo Especial" and the Future of the Revolution | |
Silvio Rodriguez Sings of the Special Period | 599 | |
From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary | 611 | |
The Revolution Turns Forty | 623 | |
Colonizing the Cuban Body | 628 | |
Pope John Paul II Speaks in Cuba | 635 | |
Emigration in the Special Period | 640 | |
The Old Man and the Boy | 644 | |
Civil Society | 650 | |
Forty Years Later | 660 | |
A Dissident Speaks Out | 664 | |
One More Assassination Plot | 666 | |
An Errand in Havana | 671 | |
No Turning Back for Johnny | 678 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 691 | |
Acknowledgment of Copyrights | 701 | |
Index | 713 |