Rebel Lands Of Cuba

Author : Joanna Swanger
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498506601

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Rebel Lands of Cuba by Joanna Swanger Pdf

The book is a comparative history of twentieth-century Cuban campesinos in two regions in Cuba marked by extreme differences in race, gender, and land tenure: Oriente and Escambray. It explores the ways these differences articulated with state formation from the pre-revolutionary period of 1934-1959 and then 1959-1974 and seeks to explain why campesinos in Escambray, having been active in the insurrection against Batista, later turned to stage a massive counter-revolution against the government headed by Fidel Castro. Although campesinos in both regions had been equally ignored by pre-1959 governments for different reasons, they developed two distinct understandings of what the role of the state should be in response to political neglect. Rich archival sources—many of which have not been accessed previously—document the unique shape of land struggles in each region in the 1930s through the 1950s. The author argues that because of the way race and gender and a collectivist land tenure tradition in Oriente mapped nicely onto the goals of the 1959 Revolution, Oriente became a kind of revolutionary showcase. In Escambray, on the other hand, a construct of white masculinity, tied to private property ownership, directly contravened the goals of the Revolution, which fueled the counter-revolution and also led to brutal state repression in the area.

Author : Neill Macaulay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015024873898

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A Rebel in Cuba: an American's Memoir by Neill Macaulay Pdf

Author : Linda A. Klouzal
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604975253

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Women and Rebel Communities in the Cuban Insurgent Movement, 1952-1959 by Linda A. Klouzal Pdf

This book is a rare and important study on the people and many of the groups and activist regions involved in the Cuban insurrection of the 1950s. It addresses the insurgent movement, how people were drawn into the struggle, the structure of the movement, including its different activist groups and how rebels operated effectively, and the role women played in this struggle. It sheds light on the localized and social aspects of the struggle, a topic that relatively little has been written on. The cultural, relational, emotional, and experiential factors that affected activists value formation and recruitment are also investigated."

Author : C. Fred Judson
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1984-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011362053

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Cuba And The Revolutionary Myth by C. Fred Judson Pdf

Author : Lillian Guerra
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822989783

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Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961–1981 by Lillian Guerra Pdf

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.

Author : Terry K. Sanderlin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468594300

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The Last American Rebel in Cuba by Terry K. Sanderlin Pdf

After his four-year hitch in the marines was up in 1957, Richard Sanderlin met another Norfolk, Virginia native, Frank Sturgis, Marine Corps veteran, Army Intelligence Officer, and future Watergate burglar. Richard, and Frank relocated to Miami, Florida where they ran an arms and munition smuggling operation into Cuba, bound for the rebels of Fidel Castro. During the summer of 1958, Richard Sanderlin traveled to the Sierra Maestra Mountains in Oriente Province Cuba, where he trained the rebels of Fidel, and Raul Castro, in military strategy, tactics, weapon handling, and hand to hand fighting. After completing the training of Raul Castros Second Front, Richard led a guerrilla band into ten combat operations against the Batista army. This is the story an idealistic young warrior who fought against the tyranny of dictatorship only to be betrayed by a communist conspiracy led by Fidel Castro.

Author : Teresa Prados-Torreira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0813028523

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Mambisas by Teresa Prados-Torreira Pdf

This book examines a rarely studied yet crucial group of insurgents who fought for Cuban independence from Spain during the 19th century: rebel women known as mambisas. Coming from a wide variety of backgrounds--rich and poor, black and white, rural and urban, young and old--these women determinedly and passionately helped forge Cuba's new national identity. They wrote political pamphlets, carried military correspondence across enemy lines, raised money in New York and raised their families in rebel camps, served as nurses, and fought on the rebel army's front lines. In defeat or victory, imprisonment or exile, their stories are fascinating and compelling. Parallel to the evolution of the Cuban nationalist process, another social phenomenon was occurring--the growth of feminist consciousness. The rebel women's participation in the anticolonial struggle encouraged many of these women to question their role and position within their families and society. In a dramatic shift of cultural attitudes, many women began to view themselves as equal partners with men. This is the first work that explores how women shaped the war and were in turn shaped by it. Mambisas puts a human face on the Cuban struggle for independence, while at the same time examining the connection between nationalism and feminism in 19th-century Cuba.

Author : Richard Burleigh Kimball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Cuba
ISBN : UGA:32108023211470

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Cuba, and the Cubans ; Comprising a History of the Island of Cuba, Its Present Social, Political, and Domestic Condition by Richard Burleigh Kimball Pdf

Author : Rachel Hynson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107188679

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Laboring for the State by Rachel Hynson Pdf

The Cuban revolutionary government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state.

Author : Rosemary Hennessy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452970066

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In the Company of Radical Women Writers by Rosemary Hennessy Pdf

Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers—Black, Jewish, and white—who as young women turned to communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide urgent, thought-provoking guidance for today. Rosemary Hennessy spotlights the courageous lives of women who confronted similar challenges to those we still face: exhausting and unfair labor practices, unrelenting racial injustice, and environmental devastation. As Hennessy brilliantly shows, the documentary journalism and creative and biographical writings of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, Alice Childress, Josephine Herbst, Meridel Le Sueur, and Muriel Rukeyser recognized that life is sustained across a web of dependencies that we each have a duty to maintain. Their work brought into sharp focus the value and dignity of Black women’s domestic work, confronted the destructive myths of land exploitation and white supremacy, and explored ways of knowing attuned to a life-giving erotic energy that spans bodies and relations. In doing so, they also expanded the scope of American communism. By tracing the attention these seven women pay to “life-making” as the relations supporting survival and wellbeing—from Harlem to the American South and Midwest—In the Company of Radical Women Writers reveals their groundbreaking reconceptions of the political and provides bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice.

Author : Ana Lucia Araujo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350297685

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Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade by Ana Lucia Araujo Pdf

Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. Ana Lucia Araujo shows that these calls for reparations have persevered over a long and difficult history. She traces the ways in which enslaved and freed individuals have conceptualized the idea of reparations since the 18th century in petitions, correspondence, pamphlets, public speeches, slave narratives, and judicial claims. Taking the reader through the era of slavery, emancipation, post-abolition, and the present day and drawing on the voices of various of enslaved peoples and their descendants, the book illuminates the multiple dimensions of the demands of reparations. This new edition boasts a new chapter on the global impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, the seismic effect of the killing of George Floyd, calls for university reparations and the dismantling of statues. Updated throughout, this edition includes primary sources, further readings, and many illustrations.

Author : Henry A. (Henry Anthony) Murray,Professor of Psychology Henry A Murray, MD
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407696505

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Lands of the Slave and the Free by Henry A. (Henry Anthony) Murray,Professor of Psychology Henry A Murray, MD Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Henry Alexander Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026709658

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Lands of the Slave and the Free: Or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry Alexander Murray Pdf

Author : Mark Abendroth
Publisher : Litwin Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781936117390

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Rebel Literacy by Mark Abendroth Pdf

Rebel Literacy is a look at Cuba's National Literacy Campaign of 1961 in historical and global contexts. The Cuban Revolution cannot be understood without a careful study of Cuba's prior struggles for national sovereignty. Similarly, an understanding of Cuba's National Literacy Campaign demands an inquiry into the historical currents of popular movements in Cuba to make education a right for all. The scope of this book, though, does not end with 1961 and is not limited to Cuba and its historical relations with Spain, the United States, and the former Soviet Union. Nearly 50 years after the Year of Education in Cuba, the Literacy Campaign's legacy is evident throughout Latin America and the 'Third World.' A world-wide movement today continues against neoliberalism and for a more humane and democratic global political economy. It is spreading literacy for critical global citizenship, and Cuba's National Literacy Campaign is a part of the foundation making this global movement possible. The author collected about 100 testimonies of participants in the Campaign, and many of their stories and perspectives are highlighted in one of the chapters. Theirs are the stories of perhaps the world's greatest educational accomplishment of the 20th Century, and critical educators of the 21st Century must not overlook the arduous and fruitful work that ordinary Cubans, many in their youth, contributed toward a nationalism and internationalism of emancipation.

Author : Aviva Chomsky,Barry Carr,Alfredo Prieto,Pamela Maria Smorkaloff
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478004561

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The Cuba Reader by Aviva Chomsky,Barry Carr,Alfredo Prieto,Pamela Maria Smorkaloff Pdf

Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction.