Author: Silvia PedrazaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521867878
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book explains the political disaffection of Cuban refugees.
Political Disaffection in Cuba's Revolution and Exodus
Author: Silvia PedrazaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521867878
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book explains the political disaffection of Cuban refugees.
Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela
Author: Silvia PedrazaPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683403614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Comparing two consequential movements that shed light on the nature of revolution Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela compares the sociopolitical processes behind two major revolutions—those of Cuba in 1959, when Fidel Castro came to power, and Venezuela in 1999, when Hugo Chávez won the presidential election. With special attention to the Cuba-Venezuela alliance, particularly in regards to foreign policy and the trade of doctors for oil, Silvia Pedraza and Carlos Romero show that the geopolitical theater where these events played out determined the dynamics and reach of the revolutions. Updating and enriching the current understanding of the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions, this study is unique in its focus on the massive exoduses they generated. Pedraza and Romero argue that this factor is crucial for comprehending a revolution’s capacity to succeed or fail. By externalizing dissent, refugees helped to consolidate the revolutions, but as the diasporas became significant political actors and the lifelines of each economy, they eventually served to undermine the social movements. Using comparative historical analysis and data collected through fieldwork in Cuba and Venezuela, as well as from immigrant communities in the US, Pedraza and Romero discuss issues of politics, economics, migrations, authoritarianism, human rights, and democracy in two nations that hoped to make a better world through their revolutionary journeys. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as the University of Michigan's Office of Research Publication Subvention Award.
Political Disaffection in Cubas Revolution and Exodus, Por Silvia Pedraza, Nueva York, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 359 Pp
Author: Velia Cecilia BobesCubans in Exile
Author: Richard R. FagenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804706735
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Investigates the political, social and psychological characteristics and motivations of Cuban refugees who entered the United States during 1958-1962, as a case study in self-imposed political exile
In the Land of Mirrors
Author: Maria de los Angeles TorresPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472087886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
DIVReflects on changes in the politics of the Cuban exile community in the forty years since the Cuban revolution /div
Cuban Revolution in America
Author: Teishan A. LatnerPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146963547X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Cuba's grassroots revolution prevailed on America's doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left even as it provoked a backlash from the U.S. political establishment. In this groundbreaking book, historian Teishan A. Latner contends that in the era of decolonization, the Vietnam War, and Black Power, socialist Cuba claimed center stage for a generation of Americans who looked to the insurgent Third World for inspiration and political theory. As Americans studied the island's achievements in education, health care, and economic redistribution, Cubans in turn looked to U.S. leftists as collaborators in the global battle against inequality and allies in the nation's Cold War struggle with Washington. By forging ties with organizations such as the Venceremos Brigade, the Black Panther Party, and the Cuban American students of the Antonio Maceo Brigade, and by providing political asylum to activists such as Assata Shakur, Cuba became a durable global influence on the U.S. Left. Drawing from extensive archival and oral history research and declassified FBI and CIA documents, this is the first multidecade examination of the encounter between the Cuban Revolution and the U.S. Left after 1959. By analyzing Cuba's multifaceted impact on American radicalism, Latner contributes to a growing body of scholarship that has globalized the study of U.S. social justice movements.
Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children
Author: Deborah ShnookalPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683401999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This in-depth examination of one of the most controversial episodes in U.S.-Cuba relations sheds new light on the program that airlifted 14,000 unaccompanied children to the United States in the wake of the Cuban Revolution. Operation Pedro Pan is often remembered within the U.S. as an urgent “rescue” mission, but Deborah Shnookal points out that a multitude of complex factors drove the exodus, including Cold War propaganda and the Catholic Church’s opposition to the island’s new government. Shnookal illustrates how and why Cold War scare tactics were so effective in setting the airlift in motion, focusing on their context: the rapid and profound social changes unleashed by the 1959 Revolution, including the mobilization of 100,000 Cuban teenagers in the 1961 national literacy campaign. Other reforms made by the revolutionary government affected women, education, religious schools, and relations within the family and between the races. Shnookal exposes how, in its effort to undermine support for the revolution, the U.S. government manipulated the aspirations and insecurities of more affluent Cubans. She traces the parallel stories of the young “Pedro Pans” separated from their families—in some cases indefinitely—in what is often regarded in Cuba as a mass “kidnapping” and the children who stayed and joined the literacy brigades. These divergent journeys reveal many underlying issues in the historically fraught relationship between the U.S. and Cuba and much about the profound social revolution that took place on the island after 1959. Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961–1981
Author: Lillian GuerraPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822989786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Authorities in postrevolutionary Cuba worked to establish a binary society in which citizens were either patriots or traitors. This all-or-nothing approach reflected in the familiar slogan “patria o muerte” (fatherland or death) has recently been challenged in protests that have adopted the theme song “patria y vida” (fatherland and life), a collaboration by exiles that, predictably, has been banned in Cuba itself. Lillian Guerra excavates the rise of a Soviet-advised Communist culture controlled by state institutions and the creation of a multidimensional system of state security whose functions embedded themselves into daily activities and individual consciousness and reinforced these binaries. But despite public performance of patriotism, the life experience of many Cubans was somewhere in between. Guerra explores these in-between spaces and looks at Cuban citizens’ complicity with authoritarianism, leaders’ exploitation of an earnest anti-imperialist nationalism, and the duality of an existence that contains elements of both support and betrayal of a nation and of an ideology.
The Revolution is for the Children
Author: Anita Casavantes BradfordPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146961152X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962
Understanding Cuba as a Nation
Author: Rafael E. TarragóPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131544447X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
A detailed yet accessibly written exploration of the history of Cuba since the Spanish conquest of 1512 that illustrates the development of the Cuban nation, and summarizes the accomplishments of Cubans since the 16th century in the arts, literature, and science.