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When Fidel Castro died last week at age 90 he had survived 11 US Presidents. A dictator who stifled free Making History: Houston’s “Spirit of the speech, political opposition, and nonconformity, and a revolutionary who made education, health care, Confederacy” and independence high priorities, his legacy will be debated for many years to come.
We have reported on Cuba regularly over the years and link below to all the articles in our archive.
In our first year online in 2011, Prof Frank Guridy (now at Columbia University) offered an online book discussion group on Cuba, leading discussions of three books you might like to read:
Louis A. Perez, Jr., On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture Jana Lipman, Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution May 06, 2020 C. Peter Ripley, Conversations with Cuba
We featured Prof Guridy’s own book on the connections between Afro-Cubans and African Americans in More from The Public Historian February 2012: On the Transnational Black Diaspora. You can see our video interview with him on that page as well. BOOKS
The Future of Cuba-Texas America for Americans: A History of Relations Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019) Jonathan Brown teaches courses on the history of Latin American revolutions. He is now completing a manuscript on “How the Cuban Revolution Changed the World.” Professor Brown took the first of his four trips to Cuba in 2006.
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Capitalism After Socialism in Cuba DIGITAL HISTORY The trip in Cuba from Trinidad to Havana was very hard, as our landlady misled us in order to make a Más de 72: Digital Archive Review commission off a local cab company. https://notevenpast.org/cuba-on-not-even-past/[6/18/2020 12:17:40 PM] Cuba on Not Even Past - Not Even Past
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The Cuban Missile Crisis More from Digital History
by Priya Ramamoorthy, Kavya Ramamoorthy, Smrithi Mahadevan and Maanasa Nathan FILMS & MEDIA Westwood High School Senior Division Group Website Over thirteen tense days in October, 1962, Ayka (Dir: Sergei Dvortsevoy, 2018) nuclear conflict nearly broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union.
October 02, 2019 I am Cuba, for Sale (1964)
An extravagant party on the rooftop of a Havana More from Films & Media hotel. It’s the late 1950s; hedonistic tourism is booming in the City. A band plays loud. Drinks. TEXAS Laughter. Our line of vision moves from the hotel’s rooftop to a crowd of tourists below, where we see a woman and follow her into the pool. A (Queer) Rebel Wife In Texas Underwater….Hailed today a classic for its inventive cinematography, “I am Cuba” was virtually forgotten for three decades.
The Cuban Connection by Eduardo Saénz Rovner (2008) March 11, 2020
In The Cuban Connection, Eduardo Saénz Rovner More from Texas rethinks Cuba’s position as a hotbed of drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling and he https://notevenpast.org/cuba-on-not-even-past/[6/18/2020 12:17:40 PM] Cuba on Not Even Past - Not Even Past
considers how these illicit activities shaped Cuban national identity from the early twentieth century through the rise of Fidel Castro.
The Old Man and the New Man in Revolutionary Cuba
The forces that created the Cuban Revolution often get lost in polarizing debates about Castro’s Cuba. Two very different films highlight the changes that ripped through Cuban society in the 1950s and early 1960s and created the Cuban Revolution.
Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis by James G. Blight & Philip Brenner (2002)
Throughout the Cold War and the decade that followed it, historians assumed that Cuban and Soviet leaders cooperated closely in the events associated with the Cuban missile crisis. Havana and Moscow, so went the conventional wisdom, put their lots together in a challenge against U.S.
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Che in Gaza: Searching for the Story Behind the Image
On June 18th 1959, dressed in full army fatigues and accompanied by several comrades exhibiting an equally imposing revolutionary appearance, Che Guevara landed in Gaza.
Operation Urgent Fury: A Revolution Aborted
On the evening of October 27, 1983, President Reagan addressed the American people on live television to discuss unsettling events taking place on the Caribbean island of Grenada.
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Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson (2010)
In July 1997, a Cuban-Argentine forensic team unearthed the skeletal remains of Comandante Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Vallegrande, Bolivia. Thirty years earlier, on October 9, 1967, CIA-trained Bolivian Special Forces agents had captured and executed the thirty-nine-year-old revolutionary before dumping his body in a shallow pit near a dirt runway.
Making History: Takkara Brunson
In the sixth installation of our new series, “Making History,” Zach Doleshal speaks with Takkara Brunson about her research on Afro-Cuban women in pre-revolutionary Cuba. Brunson’s research experiences in Cuba, and stories of the fascinating women who form the core of her research offer a taste not only of life and work in a place few Americans get to visit, but also a window into the making of a social and cultural historian.
From Baseball to Politics
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New works on Afro-Cubans and African-Americans
Che’s Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image by Michael Casey (2009)
How can we make sense of the coexistence of bumper stickers depicting Rambo and Che Guevara in a traffic jam in Bangkok, Thailand? Although this book never answer its opening question, such an insight might allow us to understand Casey’s attempt to explore the different uses of an image that remains remarkably vital decades after its capture.
Latin America’s Cold War by Hal Brands (2010)
In this new book, covering the entire period of the Cold War in Latin America, Hal Brands restores agency and initiative to Latin American actors, in the process demolishing many of the platitudes that have governed much of the https://notevenpast.org/cuba-on-not-even-past/[6/18/2020 12:17:40 PM] Cuba on Not Even Past - Not Even Past
U.S.foreign policy literature.image Based on prodigious research in a dizzying array of U.S., Latin American, and even East German archives, Brands’s work advances a trenchant interpretation that cannot be ignored.
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959- 1976 by Piero Gleijeses (2002)
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976, takes readers beyond the familiar categories of the Soviet-American Cold War. In the wake of decolonization, as charismatic national leaders emerged across Africa – from Algeria to Zaire – statesmen in Washington and Moscow waited anxiously to see if the new governments would align with democracy or communism.
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