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A Contemporary Cuba Reader Reinventing the Revolution

978-0-7425-5506-8 • Hardback
October 2007 • $80.00 • (£49.95)

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October 2007 • $34.95 • (£21.95)

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Pages: 352

Size: 7 1/2 x 10 1/2

Edited by Philip Brenner; Marguerite Rose Jiménez; John M. Kirk and William M. LeoGrande

Political Science | General

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Cuba has undergone dramatic changes since the collapse of European communism. The loss of economic aid and preferential trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries forced the Cuban government to search out new ways of organizing the domestic economy and new commercial relations in an international system dominated by market economies. The resulting economic reforms have reverberated through Cuban society and politics, recreating social inequalities unknown since the 1950s and confronting the political system with unprecedented new challenges. The resulting ferment is increasingly evident in Cuban cultural expression, and the responses to adversity and scarcity have reshaped Cuban social relations. This anthology brings together the best recent scholarship and writing on Cuban politics, economics, foreign relations, society, and culture in the post-Soviet era, which Cubans call the 'Special Period.' Ideally suited for students and general readers seeking to understand contemporary Cuba, the book includes a substantive introduction setting the historical context, as well as part introductions and a chronology.

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Introduction: History as Prologue: Cuba Before the Special Period
Part 3 Part I: Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution
Chapter 4 The Revolutionary and Political Content of Fidel Castro's Charismatic Authority
Chapter 5 July 26. History Absolved Him. Now What?
Part 6 Part II: Politics
Chapter 7 Editors' Introduction
Chapter 8 "The Cuban Nation's Single Party": The Communist Party of Cuba Faces the Future
Chapter 9 Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces: Last Bulwark of the State! Last Bulwark of the Revolution?
Chapter 10 On Cuban Democracy: Cuba and the Democratic Culture
Chapter 11 Successes and Failures of a Decentralizing Experience: Cuba's Local Governments
Chapter 12 Society, Civil Society, and the State: An Uneasy Three-Way Affair
Chapter 13 Miami Herald Cuba Poll: The Findings and How Cubans Responded to Questions
Chapter 14 Cuba's Catholic Dissident: The Saga of Oswaldo Payá
Part 15 Part III: Economics
Chapter 16 Editors' Introduction
Chapter 17 Development as an Unfinished Affair: Cuba After the "Great Adjustment" of the 1990s
Chapter 18 The Cuban Economy: Amid Economic Stagnation and Reversal of Reforms
Chapter 19 Cutting Losses: Cuba Downsizes its Sugar Industry
Chapter 20 The Political Economy of Leisure
Chapter 21 Going Against the Grain: Agricultural Crisis and Transformation
Chapter 22 Vale Todo: In Cuba's Paladares, Everything Is Prohibited but Anything Goes
Chapter 23 Dollarization and its Discontents: Remittances and Cuba's Remaking in the Post-Soviet Era
Part 24 Part IV: Foreign Policy
Chapter 25 Editors' Introduction
Chapter 26 Neoliberalism, Global Inequality and Irreparable Destruction of Our Natural Habitat: Message to the 11th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Chapter 27 Cuba and the Pax Americana
Chapter 28 Cuba's Counter-Hegemonic Strategy
Chapter 29 Like Sisyphus' Stone: U.S.-Cuban Relations in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001
Chapter 30 Advancing the Day When Cuba Will Be Free
Chapter 31 Fidel's Final Victory
Chapter 32 Wanted: A Logical Cuba Policy
Chapter 33 The Cuban Five and the U.S. War Against Terror
Chapter 34 The European Union's Perception of Cuba: From Frustration to Irritation
Chapter 35 Sleeping with an Elephant
Chapter 36 Cuban Americans and Their Transnational Ties
Part 37 Part V: Society
Chapter 38 Editors' Introduction
Chapter 39 In the Shadow of Plenty, Cuba Copes with a Crippled Health Care System
Chapter 40 Social Impact of the Economic Measures
Chapter 41 Cuban Youth: Aspirations, Social Perceptions, and Identity
Chapter 42 The Cuban Education System: Lessons and Dilemmas
Chapter 43 Early Childhood Education in Revolutionary Cuba during the Special Period
Chapter 44 Heroines of the Special Period
Chapter 45 The Status of Cuban Women: From Economically Dependent to Independent
Chapter 46 Recreating Racism: Race and Discrimination in Cuba's Special Period
Chapter 47 The Status of Gays in Cuba: Myth and Reality
Chapter 48 Civil Society and Religion in Cuba: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 49 There is No Homeland Without Virtue
Part 50 Part VI: Culture
Chapter 51 A Black Woman from Cuba, That´s All: An interview with Nancy Morejón
Chapter 52 Living and Creating in Cuba: Risks and Challenges
Chapter 53 Visions of Dollars Dance Before Cuban Artists' Eyes
Chapter 54 Ballet: Split with Cuba Still Brings Pain
Chapter 55 Cuban Cinema
Chapter 56 Two Songs
Chapter 57 From the Heart of Cuba, A Love Song for the Crescent City
Chapter 58 Rap and Revolution: Hip-Hop Comes to Cuba
Chapter 59 Home-Grown Virtuosos
Chapter 60 The Dual Role of Sports
Chapter 61 The Cuban Media

This is a wonderful resource for the study, discussion, and understanding of the contemporary history of Cuba. Delving into often-ignored areas of daily and institutional experience, and opening with an admirably lucid introduction, this text will become an indispensable tool for the teaching of contemporary Cuba in the English-speaking world.
— James Dunkerley, University of London

This book is outstanding in both the breadth and depth of its coverage of Cuba today. The forty-nine contributions span the gamut of Cuban politics, economics, foreign policy, social transformation, and culture. The coeditors are to be applauded for an engaging volume that will stand the test of time.
— Cynthia McClintock, George Washington University

[An] excellent anthology…. These articles by various scholars examine the role of the Communist Party and the armed forces, agricultural transformation, the emergence of class divisions in the 'dollar economy,' cultural changes and various aspects of Cuban foreign policy. For readers who hope to understand contemporary Cuba and our relationship with her government and people, these essays will be highly informative.
— Booklist

This amalgamation of Cuban politics, economics, foreign policy, social issues and culture leaves even the experienced cubanologist feeling that she or he has been on an essential crash course to understand contemporary Cuba. . . . I congratulate the editors and contributors for producing an informative, well-organised and timely book.
— International Journal Of Cuban Studies, October 2008

The 49 contributions to this outstanding anthology trace continuity and change during Cuba's "special period."
— Sept-Oct 2009; Foreign Affairs

With chapters written by an international who’s who of specialists in contemporary Cuban politics, international relations, economics, culture, and society—all framed by an uncommonly useful introduction—A Contemporary Cuba Reader is among those few edited volumes that should be on every Latin Americanist’s bookshelf. Highly recommended.
— Lars Schoultz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This comprehensive and impressive anthology traces the extraordinary transition process that took place during what Fidel Castro dubbed Cuba's 'Special Period.' . . . The stated goal of the editors is to provide undergarduates with a resource that brings together the best of Cuban scholarship, and they have certainly done that. . . . There remains so much in this book that is relevant, worthwhile and informative that it may be recommended to all students of contemporary Cuba and as an excellent core reader for any course on the same topic.
— Journal Of Latin American Studies

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