A contemporary Cuba reader : reinventing the Revolution / edited by Phillip Brenner ... [et al.].

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Brenner, Philip
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, c2008.
Subjects:	Cuba > History > 1990-
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Introduction: History as prologue : Cuba before the special period
The revolutionary and political content of Fidel Castro's charismatic authority / Nelson P. Valdés
July 26. History absolved him. Now what? / Saul Landau
"The Cuban nation's single party" : the Communist Party of Cuba faces the future / William M. LeoGrande
Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces : last bulwark of the state! Last bulwark of the revolution? / Hal Klepak
On Cuban democracy : Cuba and the democratic culture / Rafael Hernández
Successes and failures of a decentralizing experience : Cuba's local governments / Haroldo Dilla Alfonso, Gerardo González Núñez
Society, civil society, and the state : an uneasy three-way affair / Damian J. Fernández
Cuba poll : the findings / Mimi Whitefield, Mary Beth Sheridan
Cuba's Catholic dissident : the saga of Oswald Payá / Tim Padgett
Development as an unfinished affair : Cuba after the "great adjustment" of the 1990s / Pedro Monreal
The Cuban economy : amid economic stagnation and reversal of reforms / Mauricio de Miranda Parrondo
Cutting losses : Cuba downsizes its sugar industry / Philip Peters
The political economy of leisure / Marguerite Rose Jiménez
Going against the grain : agricultural crisis and transformation / Minor Sinclair, Martha Thompson
Vale todo : in Cuba's Paladares, everything is prohibited but anything goes / Ted Henken
Dollarization and its discontents in the post-Soviet era / Susan Eckstein
Neoliberalism, global inequality, and irreparable destruction of our natural habitat : message to the 11th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development / Fidel Castro Ruz
Cuba and the Pax Americana / Jorge I. Domínguez
Cuba's counter-hegemonic strategy / H. Michael Erisman
Like Sisyphus's stone : U.S.-Cuban relations in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 / Soraya M. Castro Mariño
Advancing the day when Cuba will be free / Daniel W. Fisk
Fidel's final victory / Julia E. Sweig
Wanted : a logical Cuba policy / Wayne S. Smith
The Cuban Five and the U.S. War Against Terror / Leonard Weinglass
The European Union's perception of Cuba : from frustration to irritation / Joaquín Roy
Sleeping with an elephant / Peter McKenna, John M. Kirk
Cuban Americans and their transnational ties / Susan Eckstein, Loreen Barbeira
In the shadow of plenty, Cuba copes with a crippled health care system / Robin C. Williams
Social impact of the economic measures / Mirén Uriarte
Cuban youth : aspirations, social perceptions, and identity / María Isabel Domínguez
The Cuban education system : lessons and dilemmas / Lavinia Gasperini
Early childhood education in revolutionary Cuba during the special period / Margo Kirk
Heroines of the special period / María López Vigil
The status of Cuban women : from economically dependent to independent / Raisa Pagés
Recreating racism : race and discrimination in Cuba's special period / Alejandro del al Fuente
The status of gays in Cuba : myth and reality / Larry R. Oberg
Civil society and religion in Cuba : past, present, and future / Margaret E. Crahan
There is no homeland without virtue / Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino
A Black woman from Cuba, that's all : an interview with Nancy Morejón / Nancy Morejón, John M. Kirk
Living and creating in Cuba : risks and challenges / Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Visions of dollars dance before Cuban artists' eyes / Maria Finn
Ballet : split with Cuba still brings pain / Enrique Fernándex
Cuban cinema / Michael Chanan
Two songs / Carlos Varela
From the heart of Cuba, a love song for the Crescent City / David Cázares
Rap and revolution : hip-hop comes to Cuba / Margot Olavarria
Home-grown virtuosos / Howard Reich
The dual role of sports / Paula Pettavino, Philip Brenner
The Cuban media / María López Vigil.

A contemporary Cuba reader : reinventing the Revolution / edited by Phillip Brenner ... [et al.].

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