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2. Afro-cuban diasporas in the atlantic world
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Otero,Solimar (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 247 p., A study of the interchange between Cuba and Africa of Yoruban people and culture during the 19th century, with special emphasis on the Aguda community.
3. Benevolent Domination: The Ideology of U.S. Policy toward Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Schoultz,Lars (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- 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:
- 41 : 1-19
- Notes:
- Argues that the bedrock of U.S. policy is an ideology of benevolent domination. Created at the time of the Spanish-American War, President Theodore Roosevelt captured this ideology perfectly in 1907 when he explained, "I am seeking the very minimum of interference necessary to make them good," and it is seen today in the 2004 report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba. Adapted from the source document.
4. Black Cubans take issue with Cornel West
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wickham,DeWayne (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jun 16-Jun 22, 2010
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 : 1A-1A,5A
- Notes:
- "I don't want to look arrogant, especially with [Cornel West]. But I believe he sat on the side of something he doesn't actually know," [Nancy Morejon] said of the open letter West and 59 other African Americans sent to Cuban President Raul Castro late last year. In it, they accused his government of mistreating civil rights activists and a "callous disregard" for its Black population. "Yes, there is racism in Cuba," Tomas Fernandez Robaina, a prolific writer about the social condition of Black Cubans, told me. The country "engaged in romanticism" when Castro ordered an end to racial discrimination nearly a half-century ago, Fernandez said. "Now we understand it will take more than goodwill to get rid of it, something Americans should know better than Cubans."
5. Canada's Economic Relations With Cuba, 1990 To 2010 And Beyond
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ritter,Archibald R. M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2010
- Published:
- Ottawa, Canada: Carleton University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Canadian Foreign Policy/La Politique etrangere du Canada
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(1) : 119-140
- Notes:
- A range of economic dimensions is examined, including trade in goods and services (notably tourism), direct foreign investment, international migration, and development assistance. Following a brief review of the evolving relationship from 1959 to 1990, the nature of the economic relationship between Canada and Cuba is analyzed in more detail for the 1990 to 2009 era.
6. Castrocare in Crisis: Will Lifting the Embargo Make Things Worse?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Garrett,Laurie (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2010
- Published:
- New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Foreign Affairs
- Journal Title Details:
- 89(4) : 61-73
- Notes:
- Cubans are wildly optimistic about the transformations that will occur once the United States lifts its long-standing embargo on Cuba. Overlooked in these discussions, however, is how Cuba's health-care industry may be harmed by any serious easing of trade and travel restrictions between the two countries.
7. Cosa de Blancos: Cuban-American whiteness and the Afro-Cuban-occupied house
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lopez,Antonio (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010 summer
- Published:
- Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latino Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(2) : 220-243
- Notes:
- Discusses representations of the 'Afro-Cuban-occupied house' in Cuban-American autobiographical narratives of a 1990s return to Cuba. A trope in which island Afro-Cubans inhabit houses once owned or lived in by white Cuban-Americans, the Afro-Cuban-occupied house appears repeatedly in Cuban-American literary and film texts during the period. The article argues that the trope, more than another example of 'literary Afro-Cubanness,' discloses Cuban-American whiteness and its constitutive element, privilege, thus inviting Cuban-American literary and cultural studies to engage in conversations along the lines of a critical Latino whiteness studies.
8. Creolizing Carmen: Reading Subversive Afra-Hispanic Performances of Maria Antonia and Isabel "La Negra" in the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sanko,Nadia Sophia (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- California: University of California, Los Angeles
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 221 p., Carmen (Mérimée 1845, Bizet 1875), the story about the (in)famous Gypsy dancer from Spain, is the second most adapted narrative in the history of world cinema, with over eighty global versions officially recognized to date. Despite the global reach of the Carmen phenomenon, many scholars claim that this tale has hardly been reworked in Spanish America and never in the Caribbean. Following Carmen from Spain to Spanish America, the author shows how the template of Carmen (a love story that reveals the racio-ethnic and gender stratification in Spain) has been artfully but unsuspectingly reappropriated and "creolized" in postcolonial Cuba in the controversial film María Antonia (1991) by Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sergio Giral, based on the landmark play María Antonia (1964) by Afro-Cuban playwright Eugenio Hernández Espinosa.
9. Cuba-U.S. Rhetoric Timeline: Hope for a Basic Shift in Policy Disintegrates into Continued Polarization
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rodriguez,Katya (Author)
- Format:
- Internet resource
- Publication Date:
- 2010-03-17
- Published:
- Washington, DC: Council on Hemispheric Affairs
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Council on Hemispheric Affairs
- Notes:
- 5 p., During most of the last half century, discussions aimed at normalizing relations with Cuba have been rare and mainly unproductive. Due to Obama's optimism for political change toward Cuba during his presidential campaign, there was considerable hope that policy would be altered in a more constructive direction, but after a year, it is argued that "change" in Latin America policy has been more in reverse than in fast-forward. Tables.
10. Cuban Medical Cooperation in Haiti: One of the World's Best-Kept Secrets
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kirk,Emily J. (Author) and Kirk,John M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- 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:
- 41 : 166-172
- Notes:
- Analyzes Cuba's medical role in Haiti since Hurricane Georges in 1998, with particular emphasis on the Cuban government's response to the 2010 earthquake. Examines two central themes. First, it assesses the enormous impact on public health that Cuba has made since 1998, and second, it provides a comparative analysis of Cuba's medical role since the earthquake.
11. Ernest Hemingway
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Goodheart,Eugene (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 369 p., This title includes discussions of Ernest Hemingway's life and works. Includes Philip Melling's "Cultural imperialism, Afro-Cuban religion, and Santiago's failure in Hemingway's The old man and the sea."
12. Failed Sanctions: Why the U.S. Embargo against Cuba Could Never Work
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Spadoni,Paolo (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 230 p., For almost five decades, the United States has maintained a comprehensive economic embargo on Cuba. U.S.-based travel to the island is severely restricted, and most financial and commercial transactions with Cuba are illegal for U.S. citizens. In the 1990s the United States tightened the embargo further, seeking to promote change in Cuba by depriving the Castro government of hard currency revenues. And yet the stalemate remains. This book argues that the embargo has not been particularly effective in achieving its primary goal. The United States has not only been unable to stifle the flow of foreign investment into Cuba but has actually contributed to the recovery of the Cuban economy, particularly from the deep recession it entered following the demise of the Soviet Union.
13. Forging diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a world of empire and Jim Crow
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Guridy,Frank Andre (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 270 p., Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to US imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. Drawing on archival sources in both countries, the author traces four encounters between Afro-Cubans and African Americans.
14. Inscribing African descendant identity in nineteenth century Cuba: The transculturated literature of Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pettway,Matthew Joseph (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 251 p., Explores how Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdés (also known as Plácido) appropriated Hispanic literature to inscribe an African descendant subjectivity in 19th century proto-nationalist Cuban discourse. Revises Mary Louise Pratt's notion of "intercultural texts" and Angel Rama's "literary transculturation", proposing "transculturated colonial literature" to trace the contradictions, re-significations, silences and shifts in the aesthetic and ideological function of Manzano and Plácido's texts. As such, 19th century Afro-Cuban literature is analyzed as an active space of negotiation and exchange disputing racial and religious hierarchies to inscribe an Afro-Cuban religio-cultural subject. The author concludes that both Manzano and Plácido disrupted the aesthetic and ideological norms of the colonial status quo by producing the first instance of literary transculturation in Cuba.
15. Joe Mccarthy's Afro-cuban Big Band Play-along
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McCarthy,Joe (Author)
- Format:
- Video/DVD
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Pub Co.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 1 DVD (63 min), The Afro-Cuban Big Band Play-Along DVD gives the drummer/percussionist an opportunity to play contemporary Afro-Cuban music in a big band setting. The DVD features play-along tracks (minus the drums), an E-book containing the complete charts and examples demonstrated on the DVD, and bonus tracks of additional tunes from Afro-Bop Alliance.
16. La guerre d'indépendance cubaine
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ferrer,Ada (Author) and Thomas Van Ruymbeke (Translator)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Bécherel: Les Perséides
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 318 p.
17. Les noirs à Cuba au début du XXe siècle, 1898-1933: marginalisation et lutte pour l'égalité
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Séfil,Marc (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Paris: L'Harmattan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 276 p.
18. Negrometraje, Literature and Race in Revolutionary Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cort,Aisha Z. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Georgia: Emory University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 207 p., Explores the expression of Afro-Cuban identity and its illustration by Afro-Cuban writers and filmmakers within the context of the Cuban Revolution. It answers two questions. First, how does Afro-Cuban artistic expression of Afro-Cuban reality change from the 1970s to the 1990s? and second, how can we reread works from Afro-Cuban writers and filmmakers within the context of the Cuban Revolution in light of the ideological disconnects between Revolution, racial discourse, and artistic expression? To answer these questions the author looks to a diverse group of Afro-Cuban artists who produced groundbreaking works during the 1970s and 1990s. Beginning with Nancy Morejón as an example of a well-known literary figure in Afro-Cuban arts, the dissertation delves deeper into the evolution of Afro-Cuban aesthetics with the cinematic works of Nicolas Guillen Landrian in the 1960s, Sara Gómez and Sergio Giral in the 1970s and finally Gloria Rolando in the 1990s. These are all artists whose work has previously never been considered in concert, but together, their works engage in an interesting dialogue and provide a collective answer to the research questions on which this project is based.
19. Orlando Zapata's death shows Cuba's racism and brutality
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Moore,Carlos (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 3-Mar 9, 2010
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 27 : 9A
- Notes:
- Cuba's rulers, say activists, see the growing dark face of the opposition as "ingratitude" that requires harsher punishment. They point to the case of Black Communist leader Juan Carlos Robinson, sentenced in 2006 to 12 years in jail for "corruption," an offense for which former foreign minister, Roberto Robaina, who's white, was arrested in 2002 but placed under house arrest. [Orlando Zapata Tamayo]'s ordeal is being spun from the other side of the coin, too - the predominantly white and U.S.-based, right-wing anti-Castro opposition who clearly stand to score political points from the case of a Black martyr. Righteous declarations can be expected from organizations such as Democracy Movement, the Cuban American National Foundation, the Cuban Liberty Council and, especially, the Cuban Democratic Directorate. Many Cuban civil-rights activists accuse these groups of working to corral and control the new internal opposition forces on behalf of interests linked to Cuba's former Jim Crow oligarchy. That's why they see U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart's "indignation" over Zapata's death, as much as president Raul Castro's "regrets," as a double farce. A staunch supporter of the tiny; white elite of wealth that was overthrown in 1959, Diaz-Balart can cry crocodile tears, but during his time in Congress his right-wing, proembargo agenda has only hindered the ability of Black Cubans to improve their lot.
20. Perceptions of Cuba: Canadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wylie,Lana (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 178 p., By acknowledging that competing national identities, perceptions, and ideas play a major role in foreign policies, Perceptions of Cuba makes a significant contribution to our understanding of international relations. Contents: The exceptionalist and the Cuban other -- The independent international citizen and the other Cuba -- Exploring Cuba policy in tandem.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. 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].
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. Telling the Untold Stories: Crossing Nation, Gender and Text in Marta Rojas' El columpio de Rey Spencer
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Feracho,Lesley (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2010
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(1) : 65-74
- Notes:
- For women writers of the Caribbean as well as for larger marginalized communities, the relationship between oral traditions and written texts is a part of the defining thread of Caribbean historiography. This article draws on Waugh and Hutcheon to examine the use of such texts by women writers of the Hispanophone Caribbean in order to highlight narrative strategies of historically marginalized groups to contest hegemonic constructions of the nation.
30. The Cuban Monetary and Financial Jigsaw Puzzle
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Alejandro,Pavel Vidal (Author)
- Format:
- Internet resource
- Publication Date:
- Nov 2010
- Published:
- Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos
- Notes:
- 7 p., The 2008-09 balance of payments crisis and a succession of errors in economic policies have resulted in new monetary and financial complications in the Cuban economy, to be added to the costs and distortions of currency duality.
31. The Cuban Revolution in the 21st Century
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lambie,George (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- New York: Pluto Press Limited
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 320 p., While most writing on Cuba seeks to analyse the island's socialist experiment from the perspective of either its internal dynamics or international relations, this book attempts to understand the revolutionary process as part of a counter-current against neoliberal globalisation. Now that neoliberalism is in crisis, Cuba's promotion of socialist values is finding a renewed relevance.
32. The Production of Racial Logic in Cuban Education: An Anti-Colonial Approach
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kempf,Arlo (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Canada: University of Toronto
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 380 p., This work brings an anti-colonial reading to the production and maintenance of racial logic in Cuban schooling, through conversations with, and surveys of Cuban teachers, as well as through analyses of secondary and primary documents. The study undertaken seeks to contribute to the limited existent research on race relations in Cuba, with a research focus on the Cuban educational context. Teasing and staking out a middle ground between the blinding and often hollow pro-Cuba fanaticism and the deafening anti-Cuban rhetoric from the left and right respectively, this project seeks a more nuanced, complete and dialogical understanding of race and race relations in Cuba, with a specific focus on the educational context. This work investigates and explicates an apparent contradiction inherent in teachers' work and discourse on the island, revealing a flawed and complex form of Cuban anti-racism.
33. The Social Memory of Arará in Cuba: Oral Histories from Perico and Agramonte
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Crosby,Jill Flanders (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Southern Quarterly
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(4) : 91-109
- Notes:
- The article discusses the oral histories of the Arará people in Perico and Agramonte, Cuba, and their roots in African cultural practices. The spiritual Arará religion is discussed. Emphasis is placed on similarities between African and Arará dances, social memory, and communication with the dead. Various Arará deities and religious objects are discussed. Many practitioners of the religion believe such objects came from Africa. Many of the oral stories revolve around the experiences of both African slaves and freed people at the España sugar refinery. It is believed the Arará people are descended from the African Ewe and Fon people, and therefore are strongly influenced by their religious customs.
34. The history of Afro Cuban Latin American music : singers, musicians, composers
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sheldon,Harvey (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Charleston, SC: BookSurge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 772 p., George Gershwin introduced Afro Cuban Music in America in 1926. Xavier Cugat during the 1930's introduced The Rumba dance. Three great innovations based on Cuban music hit the USA after World War II: the first was Cubop, the latest Latin jazz fusion. The rumbustious conguero Chano Pozo was also important, for he introduced jazz musicians to basic Cuban rhythms. Cuban jazz has continued to be a significant influence. The mambo first entered the United States around 1950, though ideas had been developing in Cuba and Mexico City for some time.
35. The purposes of paradise : U.S. tourism and empire in Cuba and Hawaiʻi
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Skwiot, Christine (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010-01-01
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 283 p., Using travel and tourism as sites where the pleasures of imperialism met the politics of empire, Christine Skwiot untangles the histories of Cuba and Hawai'i as integral parts of the Union and keys to U.S. global power, as occupied territories with violent pasts, and as fantasy islands ripe with seduction and reward. Grounded in a wide array of primary materials that range from government sources and tourist industry records to promotional items and travel narratives, The Purposes of Paradise explores the ways travel and tourism shaped U.S. imperialism in Cuba and Hawai'i.
36. Travelers' tales of old Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jenkins,John (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- New York: Ocean Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- ;, 194 p., Includes Langston Hughes' "Cuban color lines, 1930" and Erna Fergusson's "Afro-Cuban religious beliefs, 1946."
37. Who is nature?: Yoruba religion and ecology in Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Concha-Holmes,Amanda D. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Florida: University of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 327 p., "This research is in response to the general academic need to examine how black histories have been conceived and written. Instead of folklore, I look to the Osainistas (healers and herbalists initiated into the secrets of Osain) in Cuba as possible partners in a conversation in collaborative conservation. My study of Lucumí (Yorùbá-derived) religion and Osain (deity of the sacred forests, herbs and healings) reveals an embodied understanding of nature through which the boundaries of subject as well as material and spiritual become collapsed and traversed through specialized communication techniques. Ways of knowing through invocations, praise poetry, music and dance are essential to nearly all Yorùbá ritual in which spiritual forces are actualized-evoking and thus invoking spirit into physical form. Yorùbá employ these embodied techniques to transcend boundaries and open communication among spirit, material, temporal and spatial worlds, particularly to understand and work with natural resources. This embodied knowledge is, as Yvonne Daniel argues in her book Dancing Wisdom , "rich and viable and should be referenced among other kinds of knowledge" (2005:4). This intermittently conducted 2003-06 ethnographic study, relies on what I am calling evocative ethnography, which is organized around ethnography using visual and cognitive techniques along with archival research to explore how Lucumí conceptualize nature and how I can translate these embodied perceptions." --The Author.