A Contemporary Cuba Reader: The Revolution Under Raúl Castro

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Cuba has undergone dramatic changes since the collapse of European communism. The loss of economic aid and preferential trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries forced the Cuban government to search out new ways of organizing the domestic economy and new commercial relations in an international system dominated by market economies. The resulting economic reforms have reverberated through Cuban society and politics, recreating social inequalities unknown since the 1950s and confronting the political system with unprecedented new challenges. The resulting ferment is increasingly evident in Cuban cultural expression, and the responses to adversity and scarcity have reshaped Cuban social relations. This completely revised and updated edition focuses on Cuba since Raul Castro took over the country s leadership in 2006. A Contemporary Cuba Reader brings together the best recent scholarship and writing on Cuban politics, economics, foreign relations, society, and culture in present-day Cuba. Ideally suited for students and general readers seeking to understand this still-contentious and controversial island, the book includes a substantive introduction setting the historical context, as well as part introductions and a chronology. Contributions by: Carlos Alzugaray Treto, Denise Blum, Philip Brenner, Michael J. Bustamante, Mariela Castro, Soraya M. Castro Marino, Maria Auxiliadora Cesar, Armando Chaguaceda, Margaret E. Crahan, Simon C. Darnell, Antonio Aja Diaz, Jorge I. Dominguez, Maria Isabel Dominguez, Tracey Eaton, H. Michael Erisman, Richard E. Feinberg, Reina Fleitas Ruiz, Edmundo Garcia, Graciela Gonzalez Olmedo, Conner Gorry, Katrin Hansing, Adrian H. Hearn, Ted A. Henken, Rafael Hernandez, Monica Hirst, Robert Huish, Marguerite Rose Jimenez, Antoni Kapcia, C. William Keck, Emily J. Kirk, John M. Kirk, Hal Klepak, Sinan Koont, Par Kumaraswami, Saul Landau, William M. LeoGrande, Sandra Levinson, Esteban Morales, Nancy Morejon, Blanca Munster Infante, Armando Nova Gonzalez, Manuel Orozco, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Omar Everleny Perez Villanueva, Philip Peters, Camila Pineiro Harnecker, Clotilde Proveyer Cervantes, Archibald Ritter, Ana M. Ruiz Aguirre, Daniel Salas Gonzalez, Jorge Mario Sanchez Egozcue, Ann Marie Stock, Julia E. Sweig, Carlos Varela, Sjamme van de Voort, and Maria del Carmen Zabala Arguelles" Title Page List of Tables Preface History as Prologue: Cuba before 2006 Politics Continuity and Change in Cuba at Fifty Cuba’s New Socialism After Fidel The Revolutionary Armed Forces The Collapse of Socialism Is beyond the Present Horizon Religion and Civil Society in Cuba, 1959–2013 From Cyberspace to Public Space? The Promise Besieged Economics Challenges of Economic Restructuring in Cuba Updating the Cuban Economic Model Cuba’s Entrepreneurs Cuban Agriculture and the Current Process of Economic Transformation The New Cuban Economy The Political Economy of Leisure Remittance Recipients and the Present and Future of Microentrepreneurship Activities in Cuba Poverty and Vulnerability in Cuba Today Economic Illegalities and the Underground Economy in Cuba Foreign Policy Raúlista Foreign Policy China and the Future of Cuba Cuban–Latin American and Caribbean Relations Cuban Medical Internationalism under Raúl Castro Cuban Public Diplomacy The Cuban Five and the U.S. War against Terror Untying the Knot Emigration and U.S.-Cuba Bilateral Relations Dialogues within and between Cuba and Its Diaspora Cuba, a Country with a Broken Heart Culture Living and Creating in Cuba A Black Woman from Cuba, That’s All Two Songs Culture for the Masses? Nationhood and Identity in Contemporary Cuban Art Questioning Authority Zooming In Recovering from Crisis? Cuban Sport Development Social Change Cuban Youth Notes on the Race Question in Cuba Today Memorable Characters of Cuba Cuba’s Recent Embrace of Agroecology The Cuban Health System Fifty Years Later Cuban Educational Reform during the “Special Period” The Changing Dynamics of Sexuality Transcript of Television Interview with Mariela Castro Surfing Revolico.com Cuba Chronology Index About the Editors and Contributors