Cuban Studies 41

Catherine Krull, Soraya Castro Marino

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780822944010
• eBook ISBN: 9780822978497
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

Cuban Studies 41 presents topics from across the cultural and political spectrum, including essays on: the ideology behind United States foreign policy toward Cuba; a gendered study of Cubans who migrate to other countries; Cuban social policy on inequality; fifty years of Cuban medical diplomacy; the fifty-year relationship between Havana and Moscow; film posters from ICAIC (Cuban Institute for Cinematographic Arts) that promoted the exhibition of Cuban and foreign films for the first time, created a new graphic movement, and transformed the look of Cuban cities and buildings; national cultural policy and the visual arts in the aftermath of the "Grey Years;" and a look at the global influence of Havana cigars.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Note from the Publisher
• Preface - Catherine Krull and Soraya Castro Mariño
• Benevolent Domination: The Ideology of U.S. Policy toward Cuba - Lars Schoultz
• La política social cubana para el manejo de la desigualdad - Mayra Espina Prieto
• El Habano and the World It Has Shaped: Cuba, Connecticut, and Indonesia - Jean Stubbs
• Soy Cuba, de cierta manera - Sara Vega
• Fifty Years of Cuba’s Medical Diplomacy: From Idealism to Pragmatism - Julie M. Feinsilver
• Cubans Abroad: A Gendered Case Study on International Migrations - Marta Núñez-Sarmiento
• Havana and Moscow, 1959–2009: The Enduring Relationship? - Mervyn J. Bain
• Cultural Policy, the Visual Arts, and the Advance of the Cuban Revolution in the Aftermath of the Gray Years - Doreen Weppler-Grogan
• Cuban Medical Cooperation in Haiti: One of the World’s Best-Kept Secrets - Emily J. Kirk and John M. Kirk
• Reviews/Reseñas - K. Lynn Stoner and Gladys Marel García Pérez, editors
• Contributors