The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive a...

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The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball

From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive h...

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Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santeria: Speaking a SacredWorld

How do Santería practitioners in Cuba create and maintain religious communities amidst tensions, disagreements, and competition among them...

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Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976

A sweeping Cold War history that challenges views of Cuba's involvement in African liberation struggles; This is a compelling account ...

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Afro-Cuban Religious Arts: Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritancein Espiritismo and Santería

From a plantation in Havana Province in the 1880s to a religious center in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, this book profiles four generation...

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Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba

Spaces set apart by religious practitioners to represent their understanding of the sacredness of their world provide useful windows into ...

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Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Study of Racial Attitudes and Sexual Values in a Slave Society

A study of marriage patterns in 19th-century Cuba [Verena_Martinez-Alier]_Marriage__Class_and_Colour_Bokos-Z1_

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Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir

Ybor City, Florida, was once a thriving factory town populated by cigar-makers, mostly emigrants from Cuba and Spain. Growing up in Ybor C...

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From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz (Music of the African Diaspora)

This book explores the complexity of Cuban dance music and the webs that connect it, musically and historically, to other Caribbean music,...

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Sacrificial Ceremonies of Santería: A Complete Guide to the Rituals and Practices

The first book to explore the history, methods, and thinking behind sacrifice in the growing Santería faith • Explains the animal sacrifi...

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A Cuban Boxer's Journey: Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro's Traitor to American Champion

THE STORY OF CUBAN BOXER AND POLITICAL PARIAH GUILLERMO RIGONDEAUX'S HARROWING DECISION TO DEFECT IN HOPES OF REAPING THE REWARDS OF T...

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The Cuban Table: A Celebration of Food, Flavors, and History

The Cuban Table is a comprehensive, contemporary overview of Cuban food, recipes and culture as recounted by serious home cooks and profes...

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Santería: Correcting the Myths and Uncovering the Realities of a Growing Religion

Santería, also known as Yoruba, Lukumi, or Orisha, was originally brought to the Americas from Africa by enslaved peoples destined for the...

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Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean

The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics ...

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Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba

Analyzing the triumphs and failures of race relations within the Castro regime, this book challenges arguments that the regime eliminated ...

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The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880

This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abol...

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Between Race and Empire : African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution

For many black Americans, the prominence and success of black Cubans in early efforts for independence and abolition highlighted a sense o...

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Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery

As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could clai...

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Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow

Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the crea...

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Che Guevara: You Win or You Die

October 9, 1967. World-renowned revolutionary Che Guevara is dead at the age of thirty-nine. The charismatic Argentinian revolutionary had...

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