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2. 'Hay que seguir luchando': struggles that shaped English language learning of four Cuban immigrant women
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Butcher,John S. (Author) and Townsend,Jane S. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2011
- Published:
- Abingdon UK: Routledge Journals/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 24(7) : 829-856
- Notes:
- Newly arrived from Cuba, Angelica, Dora, Marina, and Damaris attempted to negotiate new surroundings and immigrant identities, building a sense of home for themselves and their families. Data from qualitative interviews, classroom observations, and focus group conversations revealed hopes that by acquiring English language skills, they would improve their quality of life in their new country. Struggles included personal factors situated in their pasts in Cuba and their new surrounds in the Miami Cuban exile enclave, contexts that were further complicated by uncertain expectations of new lives in Miami and the overwhelming task of learning a new language at a local adult education center.
3. Aspects of Cuba's Strategy to Revive Socialist Development
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ludlam,Steve (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2012
- Published:
- New York, NY: Guilford Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Science & Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 76(1) : 41-65
- Notes:
- With stark income inequalities rooted in its dual currency economy, Cuba is taxing down high and unearned incomes, while trying to raise national productivity and official salaries through performance-related pay and labor restructuring. Such measures are portrayed as an abandonment of socialism, but in Cuba are discussed in terms of historic socialist debates about distribution and the balance of moral and material incentives at work, in a society still characterized by common ownership, social protection, and collective debate.
4. Changes in the Economic Model and Social Policies in Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Espina Prieto,Mayra (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2011
- Published:
- New York, NY: North American Congress on Latin America, Inc.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- NACLA Report on the Americas
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(4) : 13-15
- Notes:
- Reforms proposed at the Sixth Communist Party Congress represent a new, third phase of social policy in post-revolutionary Cuba. This new stage has the potential to strengthen social equity in Cuba, improve the socio-economic situation of disparate social groups, and overcome the old limitations of social policy. Yet it could also increase inequality, and at least in the short term, its predicted impacts will be contradictory and ambivalent.
5. Hispanic Residential Segregation: A Comparison of Mexicans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Massey,Douglas S. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- April, 1981
- Published:
- Los Angeles, CA: Sociology and Social Research, University of Southern California
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sociology and Social Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 65(3) : 311-22
- Notes:
- "In eight urbanized areas Hispanic groups were highly segregated from Blacks, less from non-Hispanic Whites (an exception being northeastern Puerto Ricans, less segregated from Blacks than from Whites); less concentrated within central cities than Blacks; and with much segregation among themselves (significantly related to socioeconomic and nativity status)." (Author)
6. Sustainable Development from a Gender Perspective -- Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba: Women as Protagonists In Rural Areas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kleba Lisboa,Teresa (Author) and Garibotti Lusa,Mailiz (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2010
- Published:
- Florianopolis, Brazil: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Estudos Feministas
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(3) : 871-887
- Notes:
- This article discusses different views about sustainable development, emphasizing -- on the basis of a survey conducted in Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba -- the role of rural women in food production and natural resource management, the strength of the rural women's movement in the conquest of rights, and the decisive participation of women in defining proposals for public policies that guarantee gender equality in rural areas. A brief comparative analysis leads us to conclude that the development model in the three countries still prioritizes the male figure in relation to land tenure, access to credit and purchase of equipment or other material resources, it is suggested that both in Cuba, a socialist country, and in Mexico and Brazil, capitalist counties, the assumptions of social policies directed to rural female workers should take into account the basic needs of rural women to guarantee a more humane and sustainable development. Adapted from the source document.
7. The 1937 International Sugar Agreement: Neo-Colonial Cuba and Economic Aspects of the League of Nations
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fakhri,Michael (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Leiden Journal of International Law
- Journal Title Details:
- 24(4) : 899-922
- Notes:
- To many in the West, the League of Nations was to establish political peace between nations. To the Cuban sugar-producing elite of the 1920s and 1930s, however, the League was an important socioeconomic institution used to augment many of Cuba's first modern state institutions. This article explores how and why Cuban delegates were the principals behind the 1937 International Sugar Agreement.
8. Youth and Education in Cuba: Female Social Inclusion Strategy
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Garcia,Maria Isabel Dominguez (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Cuban Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 : 3-22
- Notes:
- Demonstrate how the priority of education in Cuban social policy, from its outset after the 1959 revolution, has privileged women. Statistics chart the rapid increase in educational level and attainment over the decades and the high degree of feminization of higher education and thus the skilled labor force; and today Cuba ranks among the countries with the highest indicators in the United Nations' Millennium Goals with respect to education and gender equity.