ABOUT THIS BOOK

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. In publication since 1970, and under Alejandro de la Fuente’s editorial leadership since 2013, this interdisciplinary journal covers all aspects of Cuban history, politics, culture, diaspora, and more. Cuban Studies 51 includes a dossier on Cuban social history.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Alejandro de la Fuenteis the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University and director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute in the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. He is the author of Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century and A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba, and is the editor of Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art.

REVIEWS

Praise for Cuban Studies:

“A new editorial team led by Alejandro de la Fuente draws on scholarship from Cuba and around the world to make this multidisciplinary journal a must-read for those looking beyond the headlines for a deeper understanding of the rapid changes taking place on the island.” —Foreign Affairs

“El empeño de difundir la riqueza de la producción científico-social cubana más allá de los confines de la Isla define la labor de Cuban Studies.” —El Toque

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Editor’s Note / Nota del Editor | Alejandro de la Fuente

Articles

Dossier: Living the Revolution: New Perspectives on Cuban Social History | Organized by Cayetana Adrianzén Ponce, Sara Kozameh, and Tony Wood

“The People Live Practically Like Beasts”: Informal Housing and Local Government in Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, 1959–1965 | William Kelly

Agrarian Reform and the Radicalization of Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–1962 | Sara Kozameh

Rethinking Religion and the Revolution: New Voices and Perspectives | Petra Kuivala

Tropical Science and the Politics of Development: Cuban-Soviet Scientific Collaboration Post-1960 | Clare Ibarra

Las anchas fronteras de la solidaridad: La campaña de alfabetización cubana desde los comunistas uruguayos (1961) | Jimena Alonso

Literature / Literatura

Detectives, criminales y libros de policías: La Habana moderna en el imaginario literario cubano de fi nales del siglo XIX | Alberto Sosa-Cabanas

Francisco Javier Balmaseda frente al espejo: Ni español ni guineano ni muchos, manual para desdoblamientos del yo | Ricardo Vázquez Díaz

De cimarrones: Raza y disidencia en Autobiografía de Juan Francisco Manzano | Elvira Aballí Morell

Culture and Society / Cultura y Sociedad

Estética de la (auto)destrucción: Identidades punk en Cuba | Carmen Torre Pérez

Economy / Economía

Serie estadística 1960–1975, en el Sistema de Cuentas Nacionales | Rodolfo Roque Fuentes

Primary Sources

Granada, septiembre–noviembre 1983: Por el ex embajador de Cuba Julián Torres Rizo, testigo del suicidio de la Revolución Granadina

My Embrace of Politics: A Cuban Public High School in the 1950s | Samuel Farber

Book Reviews

Revolution / Revolución

Michael J. Bustamante and Jennifer L. Lambe, The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Reviewed by Andy Alfonso

Juan Valdés Paz, La evolución del poder en la Revolución Cubana. Ciudad de México, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Gesellschaftanalyse un Politische Bildung, 2018. Reviewed by Rafael Rojas

Anna Veltfort, Goodbye, My Havana: The Life and Times of a Gringa in Revolutionary Cuba. Stanford, CA: Redwood Press / Stanford University Press, 2019. Reviewed by Ruth Behar

History / Historia

Ida Altman and David Wheat, The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Reviewed by Ben Vinson

Elena A. Schneider, The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Reviewed by Francisco A. Scarano

Bonnie A. Lucero, A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019. Reviewed by Richard Lee Turits

Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross. Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Reviewed by Felipe Alfonso and Paulo Henrique Rodrigues Pereira

Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Reviewed by Aldo A. Lauria Santiago

Ariel Mae Lambe, No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Reviewed by Kirsten Weld

Louis A. Pérez Jr., Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Reviewed by Steven C. Topik

Culture / Cultura

Laura Zoë-Humphreys, Fidel Between the Lines: Paranoia and Ambivalence in Late Socialist Cuban Cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Reviewed by Mariana Villaça

Obituario

Cuban Studies rinde homenaje a Víctor Batista Falla (1933–2020) | Rafael Rojas

Contributors

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