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22. Remittances and Their Unintended Consequences in Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Eckstein,Susan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2010
- Published:
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- World Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 38(7) : 1047-1055
- Notes:
- After Soviet aid and trade ended Cuba was forced to reintegrate into the capitalist world economy. Needing hard currency, the government transformed the diaspora into a dollar attaining strategy, by facilitating and tacitly encouraging remittance-sending. Ordinary Cubans themselves wanted remittances to finance a lifestyle they could not otherwise afford. Despite their shared interest in remittances, the government increasingly appropriated remittances at recipients' expense.
23. Representaciones del personaje del negro en la literatura cubana: una perspectiva desde los estudios subalternos
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Uxó,Carlos (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Madrid: Editorial Verbum
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 306 p.
24. Restrictions on Freedom of Expression in Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Amnesty International (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- Jun 2010
- Published:
- Amnesty International Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Amnesty International Publications
- Notes:
- Index number: AMR 25/005/2010, 35 p., In Cuba the state has a virtual monopoly of press and broadcast media and tight restrictions apply to the internet. Anyone who expresses views critical of the government runs the risk of harassment, arbitrary detention, and criminal prosecution. With dozens of prisoners of conscience continuing to serve long prison sentences in Cuba for exercising freedom of expression, Amnesty International calls on the authorities to stop the harassment and intimidation of dissidents, release prisoners of conscience, amend repressive legislation, and enable greater exchange of information through the internet and other media. Tables.
25. Rhythmic remembrances
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Daniel,Yvonne (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- This chapter concentrates on rhythm in danced, sung, and drummed practices of Cuban Santería. Musicians and dancers sing, drum, and dance the sequenced rhythms of the ancestors and provide opportunities for others to experience and learn. Many versions of ritual prose and poetry have been conserved, first by the continuous input of arriving Africans in the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the 16th to the late 19th century. Codified gestures and movements display specific patterns in accelerating and intensifying tempi. In predetermined rhythmic, tonal, and intervallic relationships, ritual musicians display the buried mathematics of a dance and music liturgy. In order to facilitate human dancing and suprahuman transformation, worshipers have relied and continue to rely on rhythmic remembrances.
26. Rumba: A philosophy of motion
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Richter,Petra (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- New Haven, CT: Yale University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 273 p., Explores the iconography of Cuban rumba--a unique AfroCuban dance and music complex that represents the foundation of contemporary Cuban popular culture--and argues that rumba constitutes an essential part of a greater African-based ontology. Rumba dance performance is conceptualized as knowledge embodied, an avatar of nonverbal cultural communication and consciousness, which plays a central role in the organization of daily life and formation of identity. This dissertation demonstrates that concrete continuities exist between the diaspora and mainland Africa through close scrutiny of rumba and parallel performance art traditions in north, west and central Africa. Also attempts to identify specific African-based stylistic conventions as exemplified by Sahara's Imazighen (also known as Berber) peoples, Mali's Mande (known as Gangá in Cuba) and related groups, and the Kongo civilization establishing that although ethno-cultural boundaries exist, they tend to be permeable.
27. Seizing the Opportunity to Expand People to People Contacts
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Beszterczey,Dora (Author), Fernandez,Damian J. (Author), and Gomez,Andy S. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- Aug 2010
- Published:
- Washington, DC: Latin America Initiative at Brookings
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 5 p., Last year, President Obama delivered the first step in his promise to reach out to the Cuban people and support their desire for freedom and self-determination. Premised on the belief that Cuban Americans are the best ambassadors for freedom in Cuba, the Obama administration lifted restrictions on travel and remittances by Cuban Americans; however, if US policy is to be truly forward looking it must further expand its focus from the Castro government to the well-being of the Cuban people. Tables.
28. Slavery and African Identity Patterns in Eighteenth-Century Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gomes,Flavio dos Santos (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(2) : 224-236
- Notes:
- In this article, I analyse patterns of classifications and naming of African "nations" in colonial Cuba. Based on parish records, I suggest possible interpretations of African patterns of classification, identities and social arrangements during the formation of Cuban plantations over the course of the eighteenth century. I discuss some of the methodological implications that can be explored regarding marriages of enslaved people in Cuba based on ecclesiastical sources, chiefly in the case of Guanabacoa. I have furthered the social/demographic analysis of "nations" in Cuba, underscoring how Africans could have been the agents of networks and alliances through organizational strategies and the formation of identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR].
29. Social Relations and the Cuban Health Miracle
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kath,Elizabeth (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Transaction Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Transaction Publishers
- Notes:
- 200 p., For Cuba's supporters, health is the most commonly cited evidence of the socialist system's success. Even critics often concede that this is the country's saving grace. Cuba's health statistics are indeed extraordinary. This small island outperforms virtually all of its neighboring countries and all countries of the same level of economic development. Some of its health statistics rival wealthy industrialized countries. Moreover, these health outcomes have resulted against all odds. This study of the Cuban health system finds that the country possesses an unusually high level of popular participation and cooperation in the implementation of health policy. This has been achieved with the help of a longstanding government that prioritizes public health, and has enough political influence to compel the rest of the community to do the same. On the other hand, popular participation in decision-making regarding health policy is minimal, which contrasts with the image of popular participation often promoted. Political elites design and impose health policy, allowing little room for other health sector groups to meaningfully contribute to or protest official decisions. This is a problem because aspects of health care that are important to those who use the system or work within it can be neglected if they do not fit within official priorities. The country's preventive arrangements, its collective prioritization of key health areas, the improvements in public access to health services through the expansion of health facilities and the provision of free universal care are among the accomplishments that set it apart. The sustainability and progress of these achievements, however, must involve open recognition and public discussion of weaker aspects of the health system.
30. 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.
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