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Week 1. The Challenge of Cuban History

Secondary Readings

• Damián Fernández, “Cuba and lo Cubano, or the Story of Desire and Disenchantment,” in Cuba, the Elusive Nation: Interpretations of National Identity, eds. Damián J. Fernández and Madeline Cámara Betancourt, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000), 79-98.
• Nelson P. Valdés, “Cuban Political Culture: Between Betrayal and Death,” in Cuba in Transition: Crisis and Transformation, edited by Sandy Halebsky and John M. Kirk (Westview Press, 1992), 207-228.
• José Quiroga, Cuban Palimpsests (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
• Louis A. Pérez, Jr. The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013).
• Fabio Fernández Batista, “Historiografía en Revolución,” La Gaceta de Cuba (UNEAC) 1 (January 2016): 52-55.
• Cuban Studies Since the Revolution, ed. Damián Fernández (Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 1992).

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Jorge Mañach, Indagación del Choteo (1928).
• Fernando Ortíz, Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar, trans. Harriet de Onís (New York, Knopf, 1947 [1940]).

Week 2. Independent Cuba Before 1959: In the Shadow of the North

Secondary Readings

• Louis A. Pérez, Jr., On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999).
• Marial Iglesias Utset, A Cultural History of Cuba During the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902, trans. Russ Davidson (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011).
• Louis A. Pérez, Jr., Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).
• Jana K. Lipman, Guantánamo: a Working Class History Between Empire and Revolution (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008).
• Frank Guridy, Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in the World of Empire and Jim Crow (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
• April Merleaux, Sugar and Civilization: American Empire and the Cultural Politics of Sweetness (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015).

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Charles Lewis Bartholomew, Cartoons of the Spanish-American War (Minneapolis: Journal Printing Company, 1899).
• Platt Amendment (1901).
• Julio Antonio Mella, “Where is Cuba Headed?” (1928).
• Emilio Roig de Leuschenring, Cuba No Debe Su Independencia a los Estados Unidos (Havana: Sociedad Cubana de Estudios Históricos e Internacionales, 1950).
• Jean Stein, “All Havana Broke Loose: An Oral History of the Tropicana,” Vanity Fair, August 4, 2011.

Week 3. Independent Cuba Before 1959: Local Struggles for Agency, Economy, and Reform

Secondary Readings

• Lillian Guerra, The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
• Gillian McGillivray, Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).
• Alejandro de la Fuente, A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth Century Cuba (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
• Lynn Stoner, From the House to the Streets: the Cuban Women’s Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991).
• Aline Helg, Our Rightful Share: the Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
• Melina Pappademos, Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
• State of Ambiguity: Civic Life and Culture in Cuba’s First Republic, eds. Steven Palmer, José Antonio Piqueras, Amparo Sánchez Cobos (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014).
• Robert Whitney, State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1944 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
• Julio César Guanche, “La Constitución de 1940: Una Reinterpretación,” Cuban Studies 45 (2017): 66-90.
• Ilan Ehrlich, Eduardo Chibás: the Incorrigible Man of Cuban Politics (Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 2015).
• Frank Argote-Freyre, Fulgencio Batista: From Revolutionary to Strongman (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006).
• Jesse Horst, “Shantytown Revolution: Slum Clearance, Rent Control, and the Cuban State, 1937-1955,” Journal of Urban History 40:4 (2014): 699-718.
• Perfiles de la nación, vol. I & II, ed. María del Pilar Díaz Castañón (Havana: Ciencias Sociales, 2004, 2006).

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• “Program Político del Partido Independiente de Color” (1908).
• Carlos Loveira, Generales y Doctores (Havana: Sociedad Editorial Cuba Contemporánea, 1920).
• “Declaración del Grupo Minorista” (1923).
• “Constitution of the Republic of Cuba” (1940).
• Eduardo Chibás, “El Último Aldabonazo,” August 5, 1951.

Week 4: The Insurrection from Without and Within

Secondary Readings

• Thomas G. Paterson, Contesting Castro: the United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
• Julia Sweig, Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002).
• Vani Pettinà, Cuba y Estados Unidos, 1933-1959: Del Compromiso Nacionalista al Conflicto (Madrid: Catarata, 2011).
• Steve Cushion, A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2016).
• Lillian Guerra, Making Revolutionary Cuba: 1946-1958 (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming 2018).
• Alejandra Bronfman, “Batista is Dead! Media, Violence, and Politics in 1950s Cuba,” Caribbean Studies 40:1 (January-June 2012): 37-58.

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Fidel Castro, “History Will Absolve Me” (1953).
• “Himno del Movimiento 26 de Julio” (1953).
• Nuestra Razón: Manifiesto-Programa del Movimiento 26 de Julio (1956).
• Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Cuba, Vol. VI (Washington: U.S. Department of State, 1991).
• Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (1959).
• Carlos Franqui, Diary of the Cuban Revolution (New York: Viking, 1980).

Week 5. The Revolution in Power: From Olive Green to Red

Secondary Readings

• Lillian Guerra, Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2012).
• Richard Fagen, The Transformation of Political Culture in Cuba (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969).
• María del Pilar Díaz Castañón, Ideología y Revolución, 1959-1962 (Havana: Editorial Ciencias Sociales, 2001).
• Samuel Farber, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Sexto Aniversario, dir. Julio García Espinosa (Havana: ICAIC, 1959).
• Carlos Puebla, Carlos Puebla (LP) (1969).
• Carlos Franqui, Retrato de Familia con Fidel (Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1981).
• Jesus Díaz, The Initials of the Earth, trans. by Kathleen Ross (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006 [1987]).
• Los Amagos de Saturno, dir. Rosario Alfonso Parodi (2014).

Week 6: American Divorce

Secondary Readings

• Lars Schoultz, That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: the United States and the Cuban Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
• James G. Blight and Peter Kornbluh, Politics of Illusion: the Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997).
• Alexander Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998).
• David Grann, “The Yankee Comandante: a Story of Love, Revolution, and Betrayal,” The New Yorker, May 28, 2012.
• William M. Leogrande and Peter Kornbluh, Back Channel to Cuba: the Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014).

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Fidel Castro Ruz, “Discurso pronunciado por Fidel Castro Ruz, Presidente de la República de Cuba, en las honras fúnebres de las víctimas del bombardeo a distintos puntos de la república, efectuado en 23 y 12, frente al cementerio de Colón” (April 16, 1961).
• Peter Kornbluh, Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba (New York: The New Press, 1998).
• Richard Goodwin, “Memorandum for the President: Conversation with Comandante Ernesto Guevara of Cuba” (August 22, 1961).

Week 7. Marginal Subjectivities: Race, Gender, Sexuality (and a Long Etcetera)

Secondary Readings

• Michelle Chase, Revolution within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
• Devyn Spence Benson, Antiracism in Cuba: the Unfinished Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016).
• Jennifer Lambe, Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
• Abel Sierra Madero, “El trabajo os hará hombres: Masculinización nacional, trabajo forzado, y control social en Cuba durante los años 60,” Cuban Studies 44 (2016): 309-349.
• Rachel Hynson, “Count, Capture, Reeducate: the Campaign to Rehabilitate Cuba’s Female Sex Workers, 1959-1966,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 24:1 (January 2015): 125-153.
• Christine Ayorinde, Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004).
• Lois M. Smith and Alfred Padula, Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
• Jalane D. Schmidt, Cachita’s Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, & Revolution in Cuba (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015).

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Ernesto “Che” Guevara, “Desde Argelia, para Marcha, la Revolución Cubana Hoy” (1965). [Also known as “El socialismo y el hombre en Cuba” / “Socialism and Man in Cuba”]
• En la Otra Isla, dir. Sara Gómez (Havana: ICAIC, 1968).
• Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, and Susan M. Rigdon, Neighbors: Living the Revolution, an Oral History of Contemporary Cuba (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978).
• Conducta Impropia, dir. Nestor Almendros and Orlando Jiménez Leal (1984).

Week 8. Fellow Travelers

Secondary Readings

• Peter Hulme, “Seeing for Themselves: U.S. Travel Writers in Early Revolutionary Cuba,” in Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing, eds. Miguel A. Cabañas, Jeanne Dubino, Veronica Salles-Reese, and Gary Totten (London: Routledge, 2015), 197-211.
• Van Gosse, Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America, and the Making of the New Left (London: Verso, 1993).
• Devyn Spence Benson. “Cuba Calls: African American Tourism, Race, and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961,” Hispanic American Historical Review 93:2 (2013): 239-271.
• Rafael Rojas, Fighting over Fidel: the New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016).
• Robert Karl, “Reading the Cuban Revolution from Bogotá, 1957-1962,” Journal of Cold War History 16:4 (2016): 337-358.
• Timothy B. Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
• Teishan Latner, “Take Me to Havana! Airline Highjacking, U.S.-Cuba Relations, and Political Protest in Late Sixties’ America,” Diplomatic History 39:1 (2015): 16-44.
• Eric Zolov, “¡Cuba Sí, Yanquis No!: the Sacking of the Instituto Cultural México- Norteamericano in Morelia, Michoacán,” in In From the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), 214-252.
• Claudia Gilman, Entre la pluma y el fusil: debates y dilemas del escrito revolucionario en América Latina (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2012).
• Ian Lekus, “Queer Harvests: Homosexuality, the U.S. New Left, and the Venceremos Brigades to Cuba,” Radical History Review 89 (2004): 57-91.

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Jean-Paul Sartre, Sartre on Cuba (New York: Ballantine Books, 1961).
• Salut le Cubains, dir. Agnes Varda (1963).
• Lee Lockwood, Castro’s Cuba, Cuba’s Fidel: an American Journalist’s Inside Look at Today’s Cuba (New York: MacMillan, 1967).
• Elizabeth Sutherland, The Youngest Revolution: a Personal Report on Cuba (New York: Dial Press, 1969).
• José Yglesias, In the Fist of the Revolution (New York: Pantheon, 1968).
• Andrew Salkey, Havana Journal (London: Penguin Books, 1971).
• Ernesto Cardenal, In Cuba, trans. Douglas D. Walsh (New York: New Directions, 1974).

Week 9. “Within the Revolution, all; against the Revolution, nothing”: The Politics of Intellectual and Cultural Production, 1959-1976

Secondary Readings

• John M. Kirk and Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Culture and the Cuban Revolution: Conversations in Havana (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2001).
• Rafael Rojas, Tumbas sin Sosiego: Revolución, Disidencia, y Exilio del Intelectual Cubano (Barcelona: Anagrama, 2006).
• El Caso PM: Cine, Poder, y Censura, eds. Orlando Jiménez Leal and Manuel Zayas (Madrid: Editorial Colibrí, 2012).
• Michael Chanan, Cuban Cinema (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
• William Luis, Lunes de Revolución: Literatura y Cultura en los Primeros Años de la Revolución Cubana (Madrid: Verbum, 2003).
• Alberto Abreu Arcia, Los Juegos de la Escritura o la (Re)escritura de la Historia (La Habana: Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas, 2007).
• Duanel Díaz, Palabras del Trasfondo: Intelectuales, Literatura, e Ideología en la Revolución Cubana (Madrid: Editorial Colibrí, 2009).
• Graziella Pogolotti, Las Polémicas Culturales en los Sesenta (Havana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2006).
• Ambrosio Fornet, “El Quinquenio Gris: Revisitando el Término,” Conferencia leída el 30 de enero de 2007, en la Casa de las Américas (La Habana), como parte del ciclo “La política cultural del período revolucionario: Memoria y reflexión,” organizado por el Centro Teórico-Cultural Criterios.
• Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: the Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015).
• Matías Montes Huidobro, Cuba Detrás del Telón, Vols. I-IV (Miami: Ediciones Universal, 2008-2009).
• Robin D. Moore, Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba (Berekely: University of California Press, 2006).

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• P.M., dir. Sabá Cabrera Infante and Orlando Jiménez Leal (Havana: 1961).
• Fidel Castro, “Words to the Intellectuals” (June 30, 1961). [Full original audio and transcript of speech in Spanish. Fragments of preceding debate with intellectuals on June 16.]
• Nosotros la Música, dir. Rogelio París (Havana: ICAIC, 1964).
• Memorias del Subdesarrollo, dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Havana: ICAIC, 1968). [Available for streaming at many academic libraries via Digitalia Film Library.]
• Coffea Arábica, dir. Nicolás Guillén Landrián (Havana: ICAIC, 1969).
• Silvio Rodríguez, Al Final de Este Viaje (LP) (1978).
• Alma Guillermoprieto, Dancing with Cuba: a Memoir of the Revolution (New York: Vintage, 2004).
• Unfinished Spaces, dir. Alyssa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray (New York: Anja Films, 2011).
• Roberto Fernández Retamar, “Calibán: Apuntes sobre la Cultura en Nuestra América” (1971).
• El Caso Padilla: Literatura y revolución en Cuba: Documentos, ed. Lourdes Casal (Miami: Ediciones Nueva Atlantida, 1975.)
• Eduardo Heras León, Los Pasos en la Hierba (Havana: Unión, 1990 [1970]).
• Dramaturgía de la Revolución (1959-2008), Vols. I-IV, ed. Omar Valiño (Havana: Editorial Alarcos, 2010-2011).
• “La Guerrita de los Emails,” anonymous compilation (2007).

Week 10. Socialist Modernities: Toward the 1970s and 80s

Secondary Readings

• Carmelo Mesa-Lago, “Ideological, Political, and Economic Factors in the Cuban Controversy on Material versus Moral Incentives,” Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs 14:1 (February 1972): 49-111.
• Douglas Butterworth, The People of Buenaventura: Relocation of Slum Dwellers in Post-revolutionary Cuba (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980).
• Jorge Fornet, El 71: Anatomía de una Crisis (Havana: Letras Cubanas, 2013).
• Maria Antonia Cabrera Arús, “Pañoletas y Polainas: Dinámicas de la Moda en la Cuba Soviética,” Kamchatka 5: 243-260.
• Carollee Bengelsdorf, “Cuba in the 1970s: Centralized Decentraization,” in The Problem of Democracy in Cuba: Between Vision and Reality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 134-155.
• Duanel Díaz, “Novela Policíaca, Estado Policial,” Chapter 3 in La Revolución Congelada: Dialécticas del Castrismo (Madrid: Verbum, 2014), 154-208.
• Jorge Domínguez, “Cuba in the 1980s,” Foreign Affairs 65:1 (Fall 1986): 118-135.
• Jacqueline Loss, Dreaming in Russian: the Cuban Soviet Imaginary (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013).
• Rachel Weiss, To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• La Nueva Escuela, dir. Jorge Fraga (Havana: ICAIC, 1974).
• En Silencio Ha Tenido Que Ser, dir. Jesus Cabrera (Havana: Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión/Ministerio del Interior, 1979).
• El telón de azúcar, dir. Camila Guzmán (Paris: Luz Films, 2005).
• Aché, dir. Eduardo del Llano (Havana: Sex Machine Productions, 2010).
• La Vaca de Marmol, dir. Enrique Colina (Havana: 2013).
• La Obra del Siglo, dir. Carlos Machado Quintela (Havana: Rizoma Films, 2015).
• Los Van Van, “La Habana No Aguanta Más” (1986).
• 8A, dir. Orlando Jiménez-Leal (Rome: Radio Televisione Italia, 1993).

Week 11. Exiles, Gusanos, and “Counter”-revolutionaries in the Vortex of Cold War

Secondary Readings

• Maria Cristina García, Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).
• Maria de los Angeles Torres, The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U.S., and the Promise of a Better Future (Boston: Beacon Press, 2003).
• Anita Casavantes Bradford. The Revolution is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
• Jennifer Lambe, “Drug Wars: Revolution, Embargo, and the Politics of Scarcity in Cuba, 1959-1964,” Journal of Latin American Studies (October 2016): 1-28.
• Joanna Swanger, Rebel Lands of Cuba: The Campesino Struggles of Oriente and Escambray, 1934-1974 (London: Lexington Books, 2015).
• Michael J. Bustamante, “Anti-Communist Anti-Imperialism?: Agrupación Abdala and the Changing Contours of Cuban Exile Politics, 1968-1985,” Journal of American Ethnic History 35:1 (Fall 2015): 71-99.
• Robert M. Levine, Secret Missions to Cuba: Fidel Castro, Bernardo Benes, and Cuban Miami (New York: Palgrave, 2001).
• José Quiroga, “The Cuban Exile Wars, 1976-1981,” American Quarterly 66:3 (September 2014): 819-833.
• Frances Negrón-Muntaner, “In Search of Lourdes Casal’s Ana Veldford,” Social Text 25:3 (1992): 57-84.
• Julio Capó, Jr., “Queering Mariel: Mediating Cold War Foreign Policy and U.S. Citizenship among Cuba’s Homosexual Exile Community, 1978-1994,” Journal of American Ethnic History 29:4 (Summer 2010): 78-106.
• Guillermo J. Grenier and Lisandro Pérez, The Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United States (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003).

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Pablo Medina, Exiled Memories: a Cuban Childhood (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990).
• Various, Así Cantaba Cuba Libre (LP) (1962).
• Guillermo Álvarez Guedes, El Día Que Cayó Fidel (LP) (1967).
• Norberto Fuentes, Condenados de Condado (Havana: Casa de las Américas, 1968).
• Roberto Fernández, Raining Backwards (Houson: Arte Público Press, 1988).
• Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban (New York Knopf, 1992).
• Roman de la Campa, Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation (New York: Verso, 2000).
• Mirta Ojito, Finding Mañana: a Memoir of a Cuban Exodus (New York: Penguin Books, 2005).
• Más Allá del Mar, Dir. Lisandro Pérez-Rey (2003).

Week 12. The Impact of the Revolution Abroad: Cuban Foreign Policy

Secondary Readings

• Jorge Domínguez, To Make a World Safe for Revolution: Cuba’s Foreign Policy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989).
• Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: a Revolutionary Life (New York: Grove Press, 1997).
• Jonathan C. Brown, Cuba’s Revolutionary World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2017).
• Manuel Barcia, “‘Locking Horns with the Northern Empire’: Anti-American Imperialism at the Tricontinental Conference of 1966 in Havana,” Journal of Transatlantic Studies 7:3 (2009): 208-217.
• Tanya Harmer, Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011).
• Tanya Harmer, “Two, Three, Many Revolutions? Cuba and the Prospects for Revolutionary Change in Latin America, 1967-1975,” Journal of Latin American Studies 45: 1 (2013): 61-89.
• Renata Keller, Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
• Piero Gleijeses, Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (Chapell Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013).
• Christabelle Peters, Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience (New York: Palgrave, 2012).
• Julie Feinsilver, Healing the Masses: Cuban Health Politics at Home and Abroad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
• Matilde Zimmermann, “The Cuban Revolution, 1958-1961,” Chapter 3 in Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution (Duke University Press, 2001), 50-68.

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Ernesto “Che” Guevara, “Message to the Tricontinental” (1967).
• Roberto Ampuero, Nuestros Años Verde Olivo (Santiago: Random House Mondadori Chile, 2012).
• Caravana, dir. Rogelio París (Havana: ICAIC, Estudios Granma; Luanda: Estudios Angola, 1990).

Week 13. The (Long) “Special” Period

Secondary Readings

• Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s, ed. Ariana Hernández-Reguant (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009).
• Sujatha Fernandes, Cuba Represent: Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
• Ariana Hernández-Reguant, “Copyrighting Che: Art and Authorship under Cuban Late Socialism,” Public Culture 16.1 (2004): 1-29.
• Ana Dopico, “Picturing Havana: History, Vision, and the Scramble for Cuba,” Nepantla: Views from the South 3:3 (2002): 451-493.
• Mauricio Giuliano, El Caso CEA: Intelectuales e Inquisidores en Cuba, ¿Perestroika en la Isla? (Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1998).
• Havana Beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings After 1989, eds. Anke Birkenmaier and Esther Whitfield (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011).
• Lillian Guerra, “Elián González and the ‘Real Cuba’ of Miami: Visions of Identity, Exceptionality, and Divinity,” Cuban Studies 38 (2007): 1-25.
• Isabel Holgado Fernández, No es fácil! Mujeres cubanas y la crisis revolucionaria (Barcelona: Icaria, 2000).
• Vincenzo Perna, Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis (Burlington: Ashgate, 2005).
• Laurie Aleen Frederick, Trumpet in the Mountains: Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012).
• Sean Brotherton, Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012).
• Nicole M. Stout, After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014).
• Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience, eds. Jacqueline Loss and José Manuel Prieto (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012).
• Kirsten Wirth, Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014).

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Carlos Varela, “Guillermo Tell” (1989).
• Silvio Rodríguez, “El Necio” (1992).
• Willy Chirino, “Nuestro Día (Viene Llegando)” (1991).
• Pedro Luis Ferrer, “100% Cubano” (1994).
• NG La Banda, “Picadillo de Soya” (1994).
• Hermanos de Causa, “Tengo” (2000).
• Alicia en el Pueblo de Maravillas, dir. Daniel Díaz Torres (Havana: ICAIC, 1991).
• Balseros, dir. Carlos Bosch and Josep María Domenech (Barcelona: Televisió Catalunya, 2002).
• Suite Habana, dir. Fernando Pérez (Havana: ICAIC, 2003).
• Fernando Martínez Heredia, En el horno de los 90 (Havana: Editorial Ciencias Sociales, 2005).
• Páginas del Diario del Mauricio, dir. Fernando Pérez (Havana: ICAIC, 2005).
• Arte Nuevo de Hacer Ruinas, dir. Florian Borchmeyer (2006).
• Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Dirty Havana Trilogy, trans. Natasha Wimmer (New York: Ecco, 2002 [1998]).
• Ena Lucía Portela, Cien Botellas en Una Pared (Doral, FL: Stockero, 2010 [2002]).

Week 14. Actualizaciones: Raúl, “D17,” and Beyond

Secondary Readings

• Julia E. Sweig and Michael J. Bustamante, “Cuba After Communism,” Foreign Affairs (July/August 2013).
• Armando Chaguaceda, “The Promise Besieged: Participation and Citizen Autonomy in Cuba,” NACLA Report on the Americas (July/August 2011): 20-25.
• Marc Frank, Cuban Revelations: Behind the Scenes in Havana (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013).
• Roberto Zurbano, “For Blacks in Cuba: the Revolution Hasn’t Begun,” New York Times, March 23, 2013.
• Julia Cooke, The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba (Berkeley: Seal Press, 2014).
• Michael J. Bustamante, “Cuba’s Customs Crackdown,” NACLA Report on the Americas 47:3 (Fall 2014): 38-43.
• Richard Feinberg, Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2016).
• Jennifer Lambe, “Youth, Indiscipline, and the Political,” Cubacounterpoints.com, August 21, 2015.
• Esther Allen, “Cuba: We Never Left,” New York Review of Books, August 14, 2015.
• Ivan de la Nuez, “Esperando a Barack,” Eldiario.es, March 19, 2016.
• Ada Ferrer, “Listening to Obama in Cuba,” Nacla.org, March 28, 2016.

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Raul Castro, “Discurso en la VII Legislatura de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular,” July 11, 2008.
• “Remarks by President Obama to the People of Cuba,” Gran Teatro de la Habana, March 22, 2016.
• Los Aldeanos, “Hermosa Habana” (2001).
• Ray Fernández, “Lucha Tu Yuca Taíno” (2007).
• Havana D’Primera, “Pasaporte” (2011).
• Jacob Forever, “Hasta Que Se Seque el Malecón” (2015).

Week 15. Postscript: After Fidel

Secondary Readings

• Achy Obejas, “The Little Fidel in All of Us,” New York Times, November 27, 2016.
• Carlos Manuel Álvarez, “El Abismo entre Castro y Fidel,” New York Times, November 27, 2016.
• Julio César Guanche, “Fidel Castro: Historia y Memoria,” Cubaposible.org, December 1, 2016.
• Jennifer Lambe, “Fidel: What’s in a Name?,” The National Interest, November 27, 2016.
• Gabe Ulla, “Life After Fidel at Miami’s Most Famous Cuban Restaurant,” The New Yorker, December 10, 2016.
• Rachel Price, “Cuba’s Next Chapter,” Publicbooks.org, December 1, 2016.
• Jorge Domínguez, “Can Donald Trump and Raúl Castro Make a Good Deal?,” New York Times, January 10, 2017.
• Elaine Díaz Rodríguez, “¿Qué Pasa en Cuba Después de la Política Pies Secos, Pies Mojados?,” New York Times, January 16, 2017.

Primary Sources and Multimedia

• Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro: My Life, a Spoken Autobiography, trans. Andrew Hurley (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008).
• Raúl Torres et. al., “Cabalgando con Fidel” (2016)
• José Ángel Toirac, “Opus” (2005)

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Michael J. Bustamante is Assistant Professor of Latin American History in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. His current book project, Cuban Counterpoints: Memory Struggles in Revolution and Exile, excavates public spectacle, rare press, private correspondence, and visual media to track clashes over Cuban collective and historical memory, on and off the island, in the wake of the 1959 Revolution. You can tweet him @MJ_Busta.