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Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 29.15"Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World" explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once in Lagos, this Cuban repatriate community became... more...
Borders of Equality
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 137.50As a border city Baltimore made an ideal arena to push for change during the civil rights movement. It was a city in which all forms of segregation and racism appeared vulnerable to attack by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's methods. If successful in Baltimore, the rest of the nation might follow with progressive and... more...
Che Guevara Reader
Ocean Press 2013; US$ 24.95A new, revised and expanded edition of an Ocean Press classic. more...
Final Voyage
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 14.99Everyone knows the story of the Titanic , but in terms of loss of life that catastrophe doesn't even figure as one of the 50 worst maritime disasters of the last three hundred years. The twentieth century was the age of the great ocean vessels, capable of carrying thousands of passengers, but it also became the age of unprecedented losses at sea.... more...
WRITINGS ON THE SAND
Hillcrest Media Group, Inc. 2012; US$ 7.99Writings on the Sand is the authors recollection of his familys lifes story during a time of great turmoil in Cuban history. The authors father was Chief of the National Police in Santiago de Cuba. Following the resignation of President Fulgencio Batista ,his father acted as intermediary to help establish communication... more...
Race in Cuba
Monthly Review Press 2012; US$ 75.00As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Dominguez, an Afro-Cuban, knew that the complicated question of race could... more...
Aufstand und Zwangsumsiedlung
Hamburger Edition HIS 2012; US$ 23.72Hauptbeschreibung "Alle Bewohner der ländlichen Gebiete [...] haben sich innerhalb von acht Tagen in von Truppen besetzten Dörfern einzufinden. Wer nach dieser Frist abseits der Befestigungsanlagen aufgegriffen wird, gilt als Aufständischer und wird als solcher bestraft." Mit diesem Befehl zur Zwangsumsiedlung der Zivilbevölkerung vom 21. Oktober... more...
Visions of Power in Cuba
The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 55.00In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba's six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba , Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical... more...
Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This book narrates the transformation of Cuban national identity from Latin African to Caribbean through the experience of internationalism in Angola. more...
Caviar with Rum
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 30.00Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of geopolitics. more...









