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Escape from Cuba: An Afternoon with Eloy L. Nuñez and Ernest G. Vendrell
Escape from Cuba: An Afternoon with Eloy L. Nuñez and Ernest G. Vendrell
Books & Books and FIU's Cuban Research Institute present… An Afternoon with Eloy L. Nuñez and Renest G. Vendrell Escape from Cuba: Personal Accounts of Those Who Fled Castro's Regime (McFarland & Company, $39.95)  Friday, April 29, 2022 1 PM ET Please note this is a free event! However, if you would like to make […]
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U.S. Merchants and the Foundation of the Cuban-based Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1790-1820
U.S. Merchants and the Foundation of the Cuban-based Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1790-1820
By the mid-eighteenth century, the Cuban elite set the goal of emulating the highly productive colonial plantation economies in neighboring Jamaica, Barbados, and Saint Domingue. As Cuban planters and merchants understood, a pivotal piece for boosting sugar production on the Spanish island was importing more enslaved Africans. But unlike the British, the French, or the […]
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Rhythms of Revolution: A Cold War History of Cuban-Chilean Cultural Exchange and Political Transformation
Rhythms of Revolution: A Cold War History of Cuban-Chilean Cultural Exchange and Political Transformation
“Rhythms of Revolution,” is a sociocultural history of Latin American radical cultural politics, as experienced through music, from the Cuban Revolution of 1959 until the defeat of revolutionary-left horizons in the 1980s. The project investigates how Cuba contributed to an anti-imperialist leftist cultural sphere throughout the Americas, using music to export revolution. “Rhythms of Revolution” […]
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Deporting the Sacred: The Circulation of Abakua Visual and Material Worlds across the Late Spanish Empire (1874-1898)
Deporting the Sacred: The Circulation of Abakua Visual and Material Worlds across the Late Spanish Empire (1874-1898)
In Caribbeanist and Latin Americanist scholarship, Africa represents a site of origin for people and cultures trafficked to the Americas. My dissertation complicates this story. I explore their movement in the opposite direction—from Cuba to Africa and Europe. This novel avenue of inquiry emerges by examining the trajectories of ritual objects belonging to the Abakuá, […]
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