While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started. InBlack ...Political Activism and the Cuban Republic, Melina Pappademos analyzes the racial politics and culture of black civic and political activists during the Cuban Republic.The path to equality, Pappademos reveals, was often stymied by successive political and economic crises, patronage politics, and profound racial tensions. In the face of these issues, black political leaders and members of black social clubs developed strategies for expanding their political authority and for winning respectability and socioeconomic resources. Rather than appeal to a monolithic black Cuban identity based on the assumption of shared experience, these black activists, politicians, and public intellectuals consistently recognized the class, cultural, and ideological differences that existed within the black community, thus challenging conventional wisdom about black community formation and anachronistic ideas of racial solidarity. Pappademos illuminates the central, yet often silenced, intellectual and cultural role of black Cubans in the formation of the nation's political structures; in doing so, she shows that black activism was only partially motivated by race.
<!CDATACuba is widely recognized as a major hub of the transatlantic Hispanic and African diasporas throughout the colonial period. Less well known is that during the first half of the twentieth ...century it was also the center of circum-Caribbean diasporas with over 200,000 immigrants arriving mainly from Jamaica and Haiti. The migration of British West Indians was a critical part of the economic and historical development of the island during the twentieth century as many of them went to work on sugar plantations. Using never-before-consulted oral histories and correspondence, Robert Whitney and Graciela Chailloux Laffita examine this British Caribbean diaspora and chronicle how the immigrants came to Cuba, the living and working conditions they experienced, and how they both contributed to and remained separate from Cuban culture, forging a unique identity that was not just proudly Cuban but also proudly Caribbean.>
Focusing on a period of history rocked by four armed movements, Lillian Guerra traces the origins of Cubans' struggles to determine the meaning of their identity and the character of the state, from ...Cuba's last war of independence in 1895 to the consolidation of U.S. neocolonial hegemony in 1921. Guerra argues that political violence and competing interpretations of the ""social unity"" proposed by Cuba's revolutionary patriot, Jose Marti, reveal conflicting visions of the nation - visions that differ in their ideological radicalism and in how they cast Cuba's relationship with the United States. As Guerra explains, some nationalists supported incorporating foreign investment and values, while others sought social change through the application of an authoritarian model of electoral politics; still others sought a democratic government with social and economic justice. But for all factions, the image of Marti became the principal means by which Cubans attacked, policed, and discredited one another to preserve their own vision over others'. Guerra's examination demonstrates how competing historical memories and battles for control of a weak state explain why polarity, rather than consensus on the idea of the ""nation"" and the character of the Cuban state, came to define Cuban politics throughout the twentieth century.
"Washington is called the father of his country; the same may be said of Bol!var and Hidalgo; but I am only a bandit, according to the yardstick by which the strong and the weak are ...measured."--Augusto C. Sandino.
For the first time in English, here are the impassioned words of the remarkable Nicaraguan hero and martyr Augusto C. Sandino, for whom the recent revolutionary regime was named. From 1927 until 1933 American Marines fought a bitter jungle war in Nicaragua, with Sandino as their guerrilla foe. This artisan and farmer turned soldier was an unexpectedly formidable military threat to one of the succession of regimes that the United States had imposed on that country beginning in 1909. He was also the creator of a deeply patriotic language of protest--eloquent, often naive, sometimes cruel, and always defiant. The documents in this volume, presented chronologically, constitute a spontaneous autobiography, a record not only of Sandino's adventurous life but also of a crucial and often overlooked aspect of the relationship between Nicaragua and the United States.
Emblematic of the deep-rooted U.S. entanglement in Nicaraguan affairs is the fact that Anastasio Somoza, who assassinated Sandino in 1934, was the father of the Somoza overthrown by the Sandinistas in 1979. By 1933 Sandino's guerrilla army had at last forced the departure of the American Marines from Nicaragua, and in that same year he had negotiated a peace agreement with the new president, Juan Bautista Sacasa. Sacasa granted Sandino and a hundred followers a large tract of government land to establish an agricultural cooperative, and Sandino agreed to partial disarmament of of his men. But a year later he was seized near the presidential mansion by solders of Somoza's National Guard and assassinated with two of his generals. The National Guard then attacked and destroyed his cooperative.
Both before and after Sandino's brutal assassination, Somoza tried to discredit the idiosyncratic blend of political, religious, and theosophical ideas through which Sandino inspired his soldiers. Included among the documents here are expressions not only of Sandino's military preoccupations and of his philosophy but also of his practical concerns about worker organization and legislation, the rights of women and children, the protection and development of Nicaragua's Indians, Central American unification, construction of a Nicaraguan canal for the benefit of Nicaraguans and the world in general, Indo-Hispanic cooperation, and land reform. This work, which is based on the two-volume Spanish edition compiled by Sergio Ramirez, includes an introduction by Robert Conrad setting Sandino's life in historical context.
Originally published in 1990.
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ES Documento en el que se reúnen trece trabajos periodísticos de Pablo de la Torriente, varios de ellos publicados por primera vez desde que aparecieron en las páginas del diario "Ahora" entre 1934 y ...1935. Agrupados cronológicamente, permiten apreciar en buena medida su vertiginosa y ascendente evolución como periodista en los escasos seis años en los que se dedicó a esta actividad, y muy especialmente cuando la ejercitó día a día en "Ahora".
EN Document in that there meet thirteen Pablo de la Torriente's journalistic, different works of them published by the first time since they appeared in the pages of the diary "Now" between 1934 and 1935. Grouped chronologically, they allow to estimate mostly his dizzy and ascending evolution as journalist in the scanty six years in which he devoted himself to this activity, and very specially when he exercised it day after day in "Now".
Presidio modelo Torriente Brau, Pablo de la, 1901-1936
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ES Durante su estancia de casi dos años en el Presidio Modelo de Isla de Pinos, Pablo de la Torriente concibió y puso en práctica la idea de escribir un libro que denunciara el sistema carcelario ...vigente en Cuba, la férrea represión del régimen machadista contra sus opositores, el inhumano trato y la explotación de los presos comunes y el plan de exterminio selectivo.
EN During his stay of almost two years in the Prison Shape of Isla of Pines, Pablo de la Torriente conceived and put into practice the idea of writing a book that was denouncing the prison in force system in Cuba, the ferreous repression of the machadista regime against his opponents, the inhuman treatment and the exploitation of the common prisoners and the plan of selective extermination.
Arriba muchachos Torriente Brau, Pablo de la, 1901-1936
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ES Este libro contiene una selección de trabajos periodísticos de Pablo de la Torriente Brau que constituyen su legado directo como participante y cronista de las luchas estudiantiles universitarias ...a comienzo de la década de 1930 en Cuba.
EN This book contains a selection of Pablo de la Torriente Brau's journalistic works that constitute his direct legacy as participant and chronicler of the student university fights to beginning of the decade of 1930 in Cuba.
ES Este libro reúne los textos que fueron incluidos en la primera edición de "Peleando con los milicianos" (México, 1938), a los que se suman varias cartas escritas por Pablo de la Torriente Brau en ...su exilio de Nueva York inmediatamente antes de partir hacia la guerra y, como apéndice, la crónica "La Revolución española se refleja en Nueva York", escrita en esa ciudad poco antes de su partida e impresa sólo varias décadas después de su caída en combate, y el único artículo publicado por el cronista en la prensa de guerra española: "América frente al fascismo", que apareció en el periódico "No pasarán", editado en Somosierra, en octubre de 1936.
EN This book assembles the texts that were included in the first edition of "Fighting with the militiamen" (Mexico, 1938), to that there add several letters written by Pablo de la Torriente Brau in his exile of New York immediately before dividing towards the war and, as appendix, the chronicle "The Spanish Revolution is reflected in New York", written in this city little before his item and printed only you change decades after his fall in combat, and the only article published by the chronicler in the press of Spanish war: "America opposite to the fascism", that appeared in the newspaper "They will not spend", edited in Somosierra, in October, 1936.
ES Ensayo epistolar enviado por Pablo de la Torriente Brau a Raúl Roa desde Nueva York, el 13 de julio de 1936. Este volumen reúne un conjunto de trabajos escritos en su febril actividad de ...revolucionario y escritor exiliado, algunos de ellos poco divulgados en estos tiempos, como "Los títeres de Ferrara" o los que escribió para "Frente Único" y otras publicaciones cubanas y latinoamericanas.
EN Epistolary essay sent by Pablo de la Torriente Brau to Raúl Roa from New York, on July 13, 1936. This volume assembles a set of works written in his feverish activity of revolutionary and exiled writer, some of them little spread in these times, since "The puppets of Ferralla" or those that he wrote for "The Unique Front" and other Cuban and Latin-American publications.
