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Understanding overlooked dimensions of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the global left in the 1960s and beyond
This volume reconsiders revolutionary Cuba's global influence by shifting the focus from high-level political leaders to perspectives traditionally sidelined, offering new insights into how everyday lives, family dynamics, and notions of gender and sexuality impacted revolutionary transformation. Its expansive scope uncovers ties between Cuba and Latin America, the United States, Africa, and Asia, examining the interplay of global forces including new models of mass consumption, feminist and LGBTQ movements, and national liberation struggles.
Chapters include analyses of Chinese reinterpretations of a Cuban play, Angela Davis's influential visits to the island, Cuba's complex relations with Black militants in Angola, and a Mexican transgender and disability activist who reimagined Che Guevara's legacy. They also present research on Cuba's solidarity campaigns with Vietnam, foreign journalists who covered the revolution, the role of consumption and fashion, and the lasting impact of the revolution's refugee policies on exiled children and families from the Southern Cone.
Through its interdisciplinary sociocultural approach, this volume challenges conventional top-down narratives by foregrounding the interplay between grassroots actors and transnational affairs. It is an essential resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in the multilayered stages of the Cuban Revolution and its continued relationship with global politics and culture.
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Contributors: Tanya Harmer Emily Snyder Felipe Cesar Camilo Caro Romero Ailynn Torres Santana Robert Franco Michelle Chase Isabella Cosse Siwei Wang Ximena Espeche Sarah J. Seidman Rafael Cesar Alexis Baldacci
Contents
vii List of Figuresix Acknowledgments
1 INTRODUCTION The Island and the World: Rethinking the Cuban Revolution Through Transnational and Sociocultural Histories
Michelle Chase and Isabella Cosse
REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN
17 ONE "The Voice of the Skin": Racial Politics in Cuban-Angolan Cooperation, 1965-1967
Rafael Cesar
44 TWO The Heroic Example of the Vietnamese Woman: Gender and Solidarity in Cuba's Age of the Tricontinental
Michelle Chase
67 THREE Angela Davis in Cuba as Symbol and Subject, 1960-1970s
Sarah J. Seidman
SEXUALITY
93 FOUR The Orphans of the Sierra Maestra: Cuba and the Homosexual Movements in Latin America, 1960-1990
Felipe Caro Romero
117 FIVE Transgressing Che: Irina Layevska Echeverría Gaitán, Disability Politics, and Transgendering the New Man in Mexico, 1964-2001
Robert Franco
GENDER, MEDIA, AND CULTURE
141 SIX Cuba, 1959: Revolutionary Attraction and Journalism
Ximena Espeche
163 SEVEN Revolutionary Roses on the Cane Field: Staging Cuban Women in Socialist China, 1960-1965
Siwei Wang
FAMILY, CHILDHOOD, AND DAILY LIFE
187 EIGHT The Paradoxes of Paradise: Memories of Exile and Family Life in Revolutionary Cuba, 1972-1990
Tanya Harmer
212 NINE Between Two Empires: Youth, Identity, and Consumption in 1970s and 1980s Cuba
Alexis Baldacci
234 TEN "We Were Like a Bomb": Child Refugees, Cuban Politics, and Argentine Revolutionary Organizations, 1970-2020
Isabella Cosse
256 ELEVEN Internationalizing the Revolutionary Family: Love and Politics in Cuba and Nicaragua, 1979-1990
Emily Snyder
279 Afterword
Ailynn Torres Santana
287 List of Contributors
291 Index
