Reviews the essays El Amor, El Sexo Y Los Celos, by Alberto Orlandini, Before Night Falls A Memoir, by Reinaldo Arenas, El Caiman Ante El Espejo: Un Ensayo De Interpretación De Lo Cubano, by Uva de Aragon Clavijo, Cuba Sin Caudillos: Un Enfoque Feminista Para El Siglo XXI, by Illeana Fuentes, La Mujer Rural Y Urbana: Estudios De Casos, by Mariana Ravnet et al.;
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The Institute for Ibero-American Studies aims to observe and scientifically analyze political, economic, and social development processes in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Academically and legally independent research establishment connected with the German Overseas Institute (Deutsches Übersee-Institut, DÜI), which is funded by the German federal government and the city-state of Hamburg. Links to online newspapers and magazines in Latin America (annotations in German), to institutes researching Latin America, and to other resources; projects descriptions, newsletter, and several papers online.
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IPPF/WHR works to improve the health of women throughout the Americas, ensure access to family planning, and address the range of sexual and reproductive health issues that affect the integral health of women, men, and adolescents in Latin America and Caribbean region.
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261 p., Examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. Analyzing the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora literature, music, film, and popular culture. Demonstrates how many individuals contest traditional roles by maneuvering within and/or trying to change their society's binary gender systems. These transgressions have come to better represent Caribbean culture than the "official" representations perpetuated by governmental elites and often codified into laws that reinforce patriarchal, heterosexual stereotypes.
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Gateway to Latin American information on the Internet, with editorially reviewed directories linking to information by country, region, subject, and on LANIC joint projects, databases, news, and Latin American studies; affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin; site versions in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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The New York State Archives Latino/Hispanic Heritage Documentation Project aims to preserve and make accessible the documentary heritage of New York's Hispanic populations...migrants, immigrants, and descendants of people from Mexico, Central America, South America, Puerto Rico, and the rest of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean... Brazil and Spain.
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284 p., Explores Cuba's hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island's ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), the author examines the ways these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship, along with calls for racial justice, at the fraught confluence of growing Afro-Cuban marginalization and long held perceptions of Cuba as a non-racial nation.
Contends that studying the practice of pimping (being pimped and positively pimping the categories with which one is pimped) may be a way for the Caribbean to speak to and assert a universal human condition: the role of sex in human history and human societies.
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The Network of Sex Workers Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was founded in 1997 in order to support and strengthen female sex worker organizations in the defense and promotion of their rights in the region. RedTraSex promotes and respects the independence and autonomy of each organization of sex worker women in each participating country.
