Cuban Studies 41

by Catherine Krull (Editor), Soraya Castro Marino (Editor)

Overview

Cuban Studies 41 presents topics from across the cultural and political spectrum, including essays on: the ideology behind United States foreign policy toward Cuba; a gendered study of Cubans who migrate to other countries; Cuban social policy on inequality; fifty years of Cuban medical diplomacy; the fifty-year relationship between Havana and Moscow; film posters from ICAIC (Cuban Institute for Cinematographic Arts) that promoted the exhibition of Cuban and foreign films for the first time, created a new graphic movement, and transformed the look of Cuban cities and buildings; national cultural policy and the visual arts in the aftermath of the “Grey Years;” and a look at the global influence of Havana cigars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822944010
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	12/28/2010
Series:	Pittsburgh Cuban Studies , #41
Edition description:	1
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Louis A. Pérez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Catherine Krull is associate professor of sociology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

Soraya Castro is researcher and professor at the Center for the Study of the United States, Havana University, Cuba