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<\/strong>Chapter 5: Cuba<\/strong><\/p>\n

Students of Cuban history are deeply indebted to Hugh Thomas for his superbly researched and highly readable Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom<\/em> (New York: Harper & Row, 1971). An excellent general history is Louis A. P\u00e9rez Jr., Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution<\/em>, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). The origins of Cuban struggles for national identity are analyzed in Lillian Guerra, The Myth of Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005). The same author has written an engaging and critical account of the first years of the Cuban Revolution in Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971\u00a0<\/em>(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012).\u00a0For a compact reference work see Julia E. Sweig, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).<\/p>\n

Several recent works on slavery and freedom in nineteenth-century Cuba are: Michele Reid-Vazquez, The Year of the Last: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World<\/em> (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011), Manuel Barcia Paz,\u00a0The Great Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas <\/em>(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012), Sarah L. Franklin, Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-century Colonial Cuba<\/i> (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2012),\u00a0and\u00a0William C. Van Norman, Jr.\u00a0Shade Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba<\/em> (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n

An ambitious and authoritative study of race in modern Cuba is Alejandro de la Fuente, A Nation For All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001). Ada Ferrer examines the relationship of race to late nineteenth-century independence struggles in Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1968\u20131898<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999). The troubled history of Afro-Cubans is told in Aline Helg, Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886\u20131912<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995). To understand the impact of scientific racism on the island, see Alejandra Bronfman, Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902\u20131940<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). The process by which Afro-Cuban culture became a part of national identity is carefully analyzed in Robin Moore, Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanism and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920\u20131940<\/em> (Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997). Challenges to racism over the course of the twentieth century are documented in Melina Pappademos,\u00a0Black Political Activism and he Cuban Republic<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011).<\/p>\n

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A pioneering study of women is Verena Martinez-Alier, Marriage, Class, and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba<\/em> (London: Cambridge University Press, 1974). The emergence of women as political players is presented in K. Lynn Stoner, From the House to the Streets: The Cuban Women\u2019s Movement for Legal Reform, 1898\u20131940<\/em> (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991).<\/p>\n

A key turning point in Cuba\u2019s relationship to the United States is examined in Louis A. P\u00e9rez Jr., The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998). The same author has produced a richly detailed portrait of Cuban society in On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999).<\/p>\n

Key works on Cuba\u2019s continuing conflicts with the United States include Thomas G. Paterson, Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution<\/i> (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); and Peter Kornbluh (ed.), The Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba<\/i> (New York: New Press, 1998).\u00a0 The missile crisis of October 1962 is reviewed in Don Munton and David A. Welch, The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History<\/i> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). More specialized analyses can be found in Sheldon Stern, Averting \u201cThe Final Failure\u201d: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings<\/i> (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003); and Alice L. George, Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis<\/i> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).\u00a0 Critical assessments of a central U.S. policy initiative in the post-Cold War era appear in Joaqu\u00edn Roy, Cuba, the United States, and the Helms-Burton Doctrine: International Reactions <\/i>(Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001). \u00a0An exhaustive recent study of the bilateral relationship is Lars Schoultz, That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009). A recent collection of articles on the Cuban Revolution and its international impact is Soraya M. Castro Mari\u00f1o and Ronald W. Preussen,\u00a0Fifty Years of Revolution: Perspectives on Cuba, the United States, and the World<\/em> (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.<\/p>\n

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Despite the sensational (and misleading) title, there is much valuable information in Andr\u00e9s Oppenheimer, Castro\u2019s Final Hour: The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba<\/em> (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992). The charismatic personality of Che Guevara is captured in Jorge C. Casta\u00f1eda, trans. Marina Casta\u00f1eda, Compa\u00f1ero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara<\/em> (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997). Cuba\u2019s most significant foreign policy venture is recounted in Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959\u20131976<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).<\/p>\n

Cuba\u2019s response to the economic crisis following the collapse of the USSR is the subject in Susan Eva Eckstein, Back from the Future: Cuba Under Castro<\/em> (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), and in Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Are Economic Reforms Propelling Cuba to the Market?<\/em> (Miami, Fla.: North-South Center, 1994). The failure of the revolutionary government to transform personal relations is documented in Lois Smith and Alfred Padula, Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) and in Julia Marie Bunck, Fidel Castro and the Quest for a Revolutionary Culture in Cuba<\/em> (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994). For the darker side of the Revolution, see Jacobo Timerman, Cuba: A Journey<\/em> (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990), and Human Rights Watch, Cuba\u2019s Repressive Machinery<\/em> (New York: Human Rights Watch, June 1999).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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