Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, 2004
Editor: Mauricio Font
Table of Contents:
Part I: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS, EMERGENT PERSPECTIVES
• “Critical Perspectives on Civil Society”
Sujatha Fernandes
• “Dollarization, Consumer Capitalism and Popular Responses”
Katherine Gordy
• “To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest”
Dick Cluster
• “The Nueva Trova: Frank Delgado and Survival of a Critical Voice”
Lauren E. Shaw
• “Humor in Literature and Film of the Special Period”
Iraida H. López
• “Gay Space in Havana”
Scott Larson
Part II: ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS
• “Banking Sector Reforms”
Mario A. Gonzalez Corzo
• “The Future of Cuba’s Energy Sector”
A. Alhajji and Terry L. Maris
• “Food Security in Cuba”
James E. Ross
Part III: IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC IDENTITY
• “The Clash Between Cuban Immigrant Cohorts”
Susan Eckstein
• “Of Rafters and Refugees”
Ted Henken
• “Remaking Havana’s Barrio Chino”
Kathleen López
• “Cuba and China: Labor Links”
Terri R. Dabney
Part IV: EVOLVING INSTITUTIONS
• “Anatomy of the Bill on Agricultural Cooperatives”
Peter Roman
• “Political Dimensions of International NGO Collaboration with Cuba”
Adrian H. Hearn
• “Cuba Through Mexico’s Mirror”
Patricia Olney
• “Aspects of the Dead”
Todd Ramón Ochoa
• “History of the Cuban National Library”
Carlos Riobó
• “Cuba’s Social Work Education Initiative”
David Strug and Walter Teague
