Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, 2008
Editor: Mauricio Font
Table of Contents:
Part I: IDEAS, IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS
• “Ideology and Power in the Cuban State”
Stephen Wilkinson
• “Epistemic Organic Intellectuals”
Anthony P. Maingot
• “Cuba and Castro: Beyond the “Battle of Ideas”
Mauricio A. Font
• “Batalla de Ideas: Old Ideology in New Clothes?”
Antoni Kapcia
• “What the Cuban Revolution Means to Older Cubans”
David L. Strug
• “Symbolic Emancipation in Authoritarian Cuba”
Marie Laure Geoffray
• “How Revolutions Justify Themselves”
Enrique S. Pumar
• “Bound to Outlast? Education for Socialism”
Salomon Berman
• “FAR from Perfect: The Military and Corporatism”
Brenden M. Carbonell
• “After Fidel: Mechanisms of Regime Change”
Andreas Pickel
• “The US Strategy for Transition in Cuba”
Gary H. Maybarduk
Part II: CUBA AND THE WORLD
• “Cuba and the US in a sandbox: Cuban Funny Papers”
Sara E. Cooper
• “EU-Cuba Relations”
Denis Baresch
• “Cuba’s Medical Diplomacy”
Julie M. Feinsilver
• “Rethinking Socialism in Today’s Latin America”
Ted Goertzel
• “A Contribution to the Assessment of a Changing Cuba”
Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir
Part III: ECONOMICS
• “Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourist Development”
Hilary Becker
• “Cuba’s New Export Commodity: A Framework”
Orlando Perez and Angela T. Haddad, with assistance of Frank Klackle
• “Dollarization, Distortion, and the Transformation of Work”
Emma Phillips
• “Cuban Remittance Agencies in the U.S.: A Survey”
Mario A. Gonzalez Corzo and Scott Larson
Part IV: HISTORY, CULTURE AND RACE
• “State Agenda and Race”
Alejandro Campos-Garcia
• “Benjamin no llegó a la Habana”
Rafael Rojas
• “Fernando Ortiz: Pensamiento y acción”
Judith Salermo Izquierdo
• “Japanese and Okinawan Cubans”
Ryan Masaaki Yokota
• “Eduardo Chibás: Incorrigible Man of Cuban Politics”
Ilan Ehrlich
• “La Biblioteca Nacional, Culture and Politics”
Carlos Riobó
• “Independent Medical Juntas in Colonial Cuba, 1820-1843”
Marianne Samayoa
Part V: LITERATURE, CINEMA AND ARTS
• “Globalization in the Contemporary Cuban Art World”
Natania Remba
• “Cuba’s Globalized Art World and Evolving Art Market”
Darrel Couturier
• “Reinaldo Arenas: The Sexual Politics of a Queer Activist”
Rafael Ocasio
• “El cine cubano sale de viaje”
Alfredo A. Fernandez
• “Porno para Ricardo: Rock, Analchy and Transition”
Laura García Freyre
• “Staging the Revolution: Cuba’s Theatrical Perspectives”
Yael Prizant
• “‘Los Novísimos’ and Cultural Institutions”
Lauren E. Shaw
