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    1. 'It's the sugar, the honey that you have': learning to be natural through rumba in Cuba

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hensley,Shannon (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011-04
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
    Journal Title Details:
    18(2) : 195-215
    Notes:
    Considers how dance, rhythm and the body become forces of social differentiation. In Cuba, many Afro-Cuban cultural practices, such as rumba, have been subject to social and spatial exclusion. In this context, sites such as the home, the street and the family emerge as highly significant for the learning and performance of Afro-Cuban music and dance.

    2. Cuba: Education and Revolution

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    De Quesada,Ricardo Alarcon (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Jul 2011
    Published:
    New York, NY: Monthly Review Foundation
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Monthly Review
    Journal Title Details:
    63(6) : 136-142
    Notes:
    In 1795, Father Jose Agustin Caballero presented the first project for the creation of a system of public education for all the inhabitants of the island of Cuba. It was a visionary idea, but impossible to carry out at that time. The island was a colonial possession of the Spanish Crown, and most of the population was subjected to slavery or made up of Mestizos and freed blacks, the victims of segregation and racial discrimination.