Contents
Editor’s Note / Nota del Editor | Alejandro de la Fuente
Founding Editor’s Note / Nota del Editor Fundador | Carmelo Mesa-Lago
La revista Cuban Studies rinde homenaje a Víctor Batista Falla (1933–2020)
Dossier: Cuba y los nuevos desafíos del sector privado, en el marco de las actuales transformaciones de la Nación | Organized by Omar Everleny, Pavel Vidal, and Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Nuevos desarrollos en el sector no estatal cubano | Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva y Pavel Vidal
CubaEmprende como referente de capacitación de los negocios privados en Cuba, su evolución e impacto | Jorge Mandilego Alfonso
Los negocios privados en Cuba y sus perspectivas en las actuales transformaciones de la Nación: Un acercamiento desde la impronta de CubaEmprende | William Bello Sánchez
Posicionamiento de los emprendimientos privados cubanos en el contexto de las transformaciones del país | Raydel García López
Responsabilidad social empresarial, una práctica desde los negocios privados en Cuba. La experiencia de Vélo Cuba y Juanky’s Pan | William Bello Sánchez
Responsabilidad socio-ambiental empresarial: Oportunidades y realidad desde el emprendimiento en Cuba | Yociel Marrero Baez y Roberto Sánchez Medina
Dossier: Packaging Cuban Media: Communities of Digital Sharing in Cuba and Its Diaspora | Organized by Jennifer Cearns
Introduction to el Paquete | Jennifer Cearns
The Opium of the Paquete: State Censorship, Private Self-Censorship, and the Content-Distribution Strategies of Cuba’s Emergent, Independent Digital-Media Start-ups | Ted A. Henken
Sounding El Paquete: The Local and Transnational Routes of an Afro-Cuban Repartero | Mike Levine
Connecting (to) Cuba: Transnational Digital Flows between Havana and the Cuban Diaspora | Jennifer Cearns
Disrupting the Algorithm: The Streaming Platforms in the Cuban Audiovisual Landscape: El paquete semanal, Netflix, and Mi Mochila | Michelle Leigh Farrell
History
La deportación en la Guerra Cubana de los Diez Años (1868–1878) | Juan Luis Bachero Bachero
Listeners in Revolution: Radio Wars from Havana, 1959 | Alejandra Bronfman
Culture and Society
Revolution on Two Wheels: Pains and Pleasures of Women Bicycling in the Special Period | Jennifer Ruth Hosek
Primary Sources
Entrevista a Leonardo Padura | Antonio Correa Iglesias
Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, 2019
Aunque me corten un ala, yo siempre puedo volar | Lesbia Vent Dumois
Marisella Veiga, We Carry Our Homes with Us: A Cuban American Memoir. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2016.
Lisandro Pérez, Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York. New York: New York University Press, 2018. Reviewed by J. Hoffnung Garskoff
Julio Capó Jr., Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Reviewed by Albert Sergio Laguna
Hideaki Kami, Diplomacy Meets Migration: US Relations with Cuba during the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Reviewed by Patrick Iber
History
Lillian Guerra, Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946–1958. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Reviewed by Julio César Guanche
Lisa Lindquist Dorr, A Thousand Thirsty Beaches: Smuggling Alcohol from Cuba to the South during Prohibition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Reviewed by Jack E. Davis
Culture and Society
Alison Fraunhar, Mulata Nation: Visualizing Race and Gender in Cuba. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2018. Reviewed by Abigail McEwen
Jalane D. Schmidt, Cachita’s Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race and Revolution in Cuba. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Reviewed by Alison Fraunhar
Megan Daigle, From Cuba with Love: Sex and Money in the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. Reviewed by Alberto Sosa Cabanas
Anne Garland Mahler, From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism and Transnational Solidarity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. Reviewed by Antoni Kapcia
Paul Ryer, Beyond Cuban Waters: África, La Yuma, and the Island’s Global Imagination. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. Reviewed by Lisandro Pérez
Abigail McEwen, Revolutionary Horizons: Art & Polemics in 1950s Cuba. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.
Contributors
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