Contents
Editor’s Note/Nota del editor | Alejandro de la Fuente
Dossier: Debates feministas y sobre género en Cuba
Gender and Feminism: New Directions in Cuban Studies | Elizabeth Dore
Regímenes de bienestar en Cuba: Mujeres y desigualdades | Ailynn Torres Santana
Feminismo y economía política marxista en la Revolución Cubana: ¿Debate ausente? | Anamary Maqueira Linares
Cubanas en transición: Un acercamiento a la estabilización-desestabilización del género y la política desde sus relatos temporales | Diosnara Ortega González
Acceso a la justicia familiar patrimonial cubana desde el género | Elena Fernández Torres
Dossier: New Comparative Measures on the Cuban Economy and Latin America
Where the Cuban Economy Stands in Latin America: A New Measurement of Gross Domestic Product | Pavel Vidal Alejandro
Vidal’s Results and Cuba’s Ranking in the Human Development Index | Carmelo Mesa-Lago
The Behavior of Total Factor Productivity in Cuba: A Comment on Pavel Vidal’s Article | Ernesto Hernández-Catá
Reflections on Cuba’s National Income Statistics | Jorge F. Pérez-López
Dossier: History of Education
Foreword | Louis A. Pérez Jr.
The Great Equalizer?: Education, Racial Exclusion, and the Transition from Colony to Republic in Cienfuegos, Cuba | Bonnie A. Lucero
“Es de suponer que los maestros sean de la misma clase”: What a Nineteenth-Century Teaching Application Reveals about Race, Power, and Education in Colonial Cuba | Raquel Alicia Otheguy
Protestantismo y educación en Cuba: ¿Qué tipo de ciudadano formar? | Yoana Hernández Suárez
The Liberal Moment of The Revolution: Cuba’s Early Educational Reforms, 1959–1961 | Rainer G. Schultz
History
Los castigos escolares en Cuba: Debates en la Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País, 1793–1835 | Yoel Cordoví Núñez
The Myth of Mafia Rule in 1950s Cuba: Origin, Relevance, and Legacies | Frank Argote-Freyre
Cuba’s National Sexual Education Program: Origins and Evolution | Emily J. Kirk
Cuban Studies and the Siren Song of La Revolución | Yvon Grenier
Primary Sources
The Birth of the Cuban Biotechnology Research Effort: A Bench Scientist’s Perspective | Jorge A. Benítez
Viaje a La Habana, viaje en el tiempo | Ingrid Brioso Rieumont
Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas | From the series Esperando por el momento oportuno 2018
(Waiting for the Right Time), 2012 | José Toirac
Book Reviews
History
Dale Tomich, ed. Slavery and Historical Capitalism during the Nineteenth Century. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefi eld Publishing Group, 2017. Reviewed by Zachary Morgan
Dahlia A. Muller, Cuban Émigrés and Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Reviewed by Isadora Mota
Elzbieta Sklodowska, Invento luego resisto: El Período Especial en Cuba como experiencia y metáfora (1990–2015). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2016. Reviewed by Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Arechavaleta
Matthew Casey, Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba during the Age of US Occupation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Reviewed by Aviva Chomsky
Culture and Society
La represión documentada: Review of Coco Fusco’s “La Botella al Mar de María Elena” and “La Confesión.” Reviewed by Rafael Rojas
Jesús J. Barquet y Virgilio López Lemus, eds. Todo parecía: Poesía cubana contemporánea de temas gays y lésbicos. Las Cruces: Ediciones La Mirada, 2015. Reviewed by Paula Fernández-Hernández
Julia Cooke, The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2014; Brian Jonathan Butler, The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway’s Ghost in the Last Days of Castro’s Cuba. New York: Picado
Elías Miguel Muñoz, Diary of Fire. Maple Shade, NJ: Tincture, 2016. Reviewed by John D. Ribó
Contributors
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