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Cuba's wild east : a literary geography of oriente
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ISBN: 1781386382 1781388822 1846317177 9781846317170 9781846317484 1846317487 Year: 2011 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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Cuba℗'s Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente recounts a literary history of modern Cuba that has four distinctive and interrelated characteristics. Oriented to the east of the island, it looks aslant at a Cuban national literature that has sometimes been indistinguishable from a history of Havana. Given the insurgent and revolutionary history of that eastern region, it recounts stories of rebellion, heroism, and sacrifice. Intimately related to places and sites which now belong to a national pantheon, its corpus℗-while including fiction and poetry℗-is frequently written as memoir and testimony. As a region of encounter, that corpus is itself resolutely mixed, featuring a significant proportion of writings by US journalists and novelists as well as by Cuban writers.

The Havana guide : modern architecture 1925 - 1965.
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ISBN: 1568982100 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York Princeton Architectural Press

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The first half of the twentieth century was a culturally and artistically rich era in Cuba. Architects of the modern movement enthusiastically sought to define the identity of this tine Caribbean nation, and their vision is most notably revealed in the capital city of Havana. This is the first book to recognize and catalog the enormous architectural wealth of Havana built between 1925 and 1965. The guide features 200 structures ranging from private homes to hotels, churches and government buildings. Included are maps organized by neighborhood, archival and contemporary photographs, plans for each building and a brief history of the modern movement in Cuba and the architects responsible for the brilliant diversity of Havana's landscape.


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My Havana
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ISBN: 1442668997 9781442668997 9781442647718 144264771X 9781442615786 1442615788 1442669004 Year: 2014 Publisher: Toronto

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For more than thirty years, musician Carlos Varela has been a guide to the heart, soul, and sound of Havana. My Havana is a lyrical exploration of Varela's life and work, and of the vibrant musical, literary, and cinematic culture of his generation.


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Dictator's dreamscape
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ISBN: 0822986493 9780822986492 9780822945468 0822945460 Year: 2019 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa.

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"Joseph Hartman focuses on the public works campaign of Cuban president, and later dictator, Gerardo Machado. Political histories often condemn Machado as a US-puppet dictator, overthrown in a labor revolt and popular revolution in 1933. Architectural histories tend to catalogue his regime's public works as derivatives of US and European models. Dictator's Dreamscape reassesses the regime's public works program as a highly nuanced visual project embedded in centuries-old representations of Cuba alongside wider debates on the nature of art and architecture in general, especially in regards to globalization and the spread of US-style consumerism. The cultural production overseen by Machado gives a fresh and greatly broadened perspective on his regime's accomplishments, failures, and crimes. The book addresses the regime's architectural program as a visual and architectonic response to debates over Cuban national identity, US imperialism, and Machado's own cult of personality"--


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Conceiving Freedom : Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
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ISBN: 1469610892 1469611805 1469610876 1469610884 9781469611808 9781469610894 9781469610870 9781469610887 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : The University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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"In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their children through the courts. Cowling examines how women, typically illiterate but with access to scribes, instigated myriad successful petitions for emancipation, often using "free-womb" laws that declared that the children of enslaved women were legally free. She reveals how enslaved women's struggles connected to abolitionist movements in each city and the broader Atlantic World, mobilizing new notions about enslaved and free womanhood. She shows how women conceived freedom and then taught the "free-womb" generation to understand and shape the meaning of that freedom. Even after emancipation, freed women would continue to use these claims-making tools as they struggled to establish new spaces for themselves and their families in post emancipation society"--


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Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba : To Not Die Alone
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ISBN: 1137580755 1137580763 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba focuses on the lives of low-income Havana residents over the life cycle from birth to death. The book documents how kinship and love relations are created, reproduced, and negotiated at different life stages through gendered dialectics of care, important to both individuals' relationships and state politics. In the process, through a variety of practices and meanings ranging from rituals to understandings of sexual desire, gender becomes affirmed as the central social difference characterizing Cuban society. The book argues that Cubans live their lives embedded in social networks of care that are both emotionally and pragmatically central to individual existence. At the same time, the island's contemporary political and economic changes carry gendered consequences to everyday relationships, with the potential to introduce unexpected changes to the life cycle.

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Ethnology. --- Social interaction --- Kinship --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Social Change --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Life cycle, Human. --- Havana (Cuba) --- Social conditions --- Human life cycle --- Life stages, Human --- Lifecycle, Human --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Social aspects --- San Cristóbal de la Habana (Cuba) --- Gavana (Cuba) --- Habana (Cuba) --- La Havana (Cuba) --- La Habana (Cuba) --- La Havane (Cuba) --- Havane (Cuba) --- Social sciences. --- Sociology. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Gender expression. --- Gender identity. --- Social Sciences. --- Social Anthropology. --- Gender Studies. --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Expression, Gender --- Sex role --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Psychological aspects --- Human growth --- Life cycles (Biology) --- Maturation (Psychology) --- Developmental psychology --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Kin recognition --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Avana (Cuba) --- Havanna (Cuba)


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Beyond the walled city : colonial exclusion in Havana
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ISBN: 0520961374 9780520961371 9780520286030 0520286030 9780520286047 0520286049 Year: 2015 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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One of the earliest and most important port cities in the New World, Havana quickly became a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities. Beyond the Walled City tells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed. Examining imperial efforts to police urban space from the late sixteenth century onward, Guadalupe García shows how the production of urban space was explicitly centered on the politics of racial exclusion and social control. Connecting colonial governing practices to broader debates on urbanization, the regulation of public spaces, and the racial dislocation of urban populations, Beyond the Walled City points to the ways in which colonialism is inscribed on modern topographies.

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City planning --- Urban policy --- Racism --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Critical race theory --- Race relations --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban renewal --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Government policy --- Management --- Havana (Cuba) --- Spain --- United States --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- Espagne --- Espainiako Erresuma --- España --- Espanha --- Espanja --- Espanya --- Estado Español --- Hispania --- Hiszpania --- Isupania --- Kingdom of Spain --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Reino de España --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanie --- Shpanye --- Spanien --- Spanish State --- Supein --- イスパニア --- スペイン --- San Cristóbal de la Habana (Cuba) --- Gavana (Cuba) --- Habana (Cuba) --- La Havana (Cuba) --- La Habana (Cuba) --- La Havane (Cuba) --- Havane (Cuba) --- Avana (Cuba) --- History. --- Race relations. --- Colonies --- Territories and possessions --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Havanna (Cuba) --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU --- 16th century cuba. --- 19th century cuba. --- american colonial efforts in cuba. --- caribbean history. --- caribbean. --- colonial cities. --- colonial impact on urbanization. --- cuban history. --- early modern caribbean. --- havana. --- north americans in havana. --- politics of space. --- public spaces. --- race in cuba. --- racial exclusion. --- racism cuba. --- regulation of public space. --- spanish colonies. --- urban areas. --- urban policy cuba. --- urban populations. --- urban space in cuba. --- urban studies. --- wall in havana.

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