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 […]

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 […]

“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” […]