Contents
Editor’s Note / Nota del editor | Alejandro de la Fuente
Dossier: Havana: New Research and Critical Reflections on an Urban Palimpsest after Five Centuries
Prolegomenon: Havana, Body and Soul—From Urban Theory to Social Practice, and Back Again | Ray Hernández-Durán
Plaza, Paseo, and Street: Urban Palimpsests of Nineteenth-Century Havana | Paul Niell
“In Order to Dominate It”: Empire, Race, and Power in the Botanical Garden of Havana in the Nineteenth Century | Lee Sessions
Hurricanes in Havana: El Ciclón de ’26 as Cultural Agent in Machado’s Cuba | Joseph R. Hartman
Socialist Modernities in Concrete: Pabellón Cuba as Palimpsest and Stage | Fredo Rivera
Dossier: La Habana en el siglo XXI / Havana in the Twenty-First Century
Introducción: Pensar la Habana en el siglo XXI | María A. Gutiérrez Bascón y Roberto Zurbano Torres
Virtual Tropicality: Technocapitalist Visions of Havana’s Urban Future | Maile Speakman
La plantación invisible: Un tour por La Habana negra | Roberto Zurbano Torres
Havana’s Last Conga: Trans Engagements and Queer Moves in Twenty-First-Century Cuba | David Tenorio
Toward a New Cuban Architecture: The Emergence of Private Architectural Studios in Havana (2011–2020) María A. Gutiérrez Bascón
El papel de los arquitectos en la rehabilitación de la ciudad consolidada: Hacia un nuevo modelo en la proyección de vivienda social | Carlos García Pleyán
Dossier: Visiones, entusiasmos y disidencias de la Revolución cubana en la escena intelectual latinoamericana de los años sesenta
Presentación del dossier | Martín Ribadero y Grethel Domenech Hernández
Tres revistas cubanas: Tres conceptos de Revolución (1959–1971) | Rafael Rojas Gutiérrez
Cuba revolucionaria en las páginas de tres publicaciones mexicanas | Elisa Servín
La profecía realizada: Viajeros argentinos de izquierda a la Revolución cubana | Martín Ribadero
El intelectual y la revolución: Notas sobre un encuentro de la familia intelectual latinoamericana en 1969 | Grethel Domenech Hernández
La Habana del escritor: Jaime García Terrés y la representación del compromiso intelectual en torno a la Revolución cubana en 1959 | Juan Alberto Salazar Rebelledo
Water and Quality of Life in Contemporary Cuba: Contending Issues and Implications | Enrique S. Pumar, Helena Solo-Gabriele, and Joseph B. Treaster
Research Note
Looking Past the Colossus: The Archivo Central del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores in Havana and Cuban Foreign Relations during the Cold War | Aaron Coy Moulton
Primary Sources
Testimonio: La protección diplomática no admite discriminación | Embajador Ernesto Pinto Bazurco Rittler
Book Reviews
Gregory P. Downs, The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic (UNC Press, 2019); Aisha Finch and Fannie Rushing, Breaking the Chains: The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812–191
Helen Yaffe, We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Survived in a Post-Soviet World (Yale University Press, 2020). Reviewed by Michael J. Bustamante.
Rachel Hynson, Laboring for the State: Women, Family and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–1971 (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Reviewed by Ailynne Torres Santana.
Devyn Spence Benson, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, and Inés María Martiatu Terry, eds., Afrocubanas: History, Thought and Cultural Practices (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020). Reviewed by Solsiree Del Moral.
Anna Clayfield, The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution (University of Florida Press, 2019). Reviewed by Sílvia Cezar Miskulin.
Megan Feeney, Hollywood in Havana: US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959 (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Reviewed by Cary Aileen García Yero.
Isabel Story, Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 1961–1987: When the Soviets Came to Stay (Lexington Books, 2019). Reviewed by Cary Aileen García Yero.
Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Jan Svejnar, The Cuban Economic Crisis: Its Causes and Possible Policies for a Transition (Florida International University, 2020). Reviewed by Ricardo Torres Pérez.
Ruth Behar, Everything I Kept / Todo lo que guardé (Swan Isle Press, 2018). Reviewed by Lillian Guerra.
Contributors
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