Author: Martin Carnoy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: cuba, school, students, advantage, academic
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-03-19
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0804755981
ISBN-13: 9780804755986
In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba’s supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks important questions about educational systems in general. How responsible should government be for creating environments that encourage academic achievement? How much autonomy should teachers and schools have over their classrooms? Is there an inherent tradeoff between promoting individual choic
Author: José Azel
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: cuba, challenges, transitional, legacy, maã±ana, castroism
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1449076556
ISBN-13: 9781449076559
Mañana in Cuba is a comprehensive analysis of contemporary Cuba with an incisive perspective of the Cuban frame of mind and its relevancy for Cuba’s future. Part one of the book critically explores the mindset Cubans have developed living under a totalitarian system and introduces modern concepts of choice architecture and governance that can be employed Mañana in Cuba to foster a democratic civil society. Part two turns to a discussion of the principles that should guide sociopolitical and economic transition policies in line with Cuban culture and history. Mañana in Cuba offers a so
Author: Ruth Behar
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: cuba, puentes, bridges
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1996-01-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0472066110
ISBN-13: 9780472066117
Through personal essays and poetry, short fiction and painting, book reviews, interviews, performance pieces, and hybrid creations of text and image, Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba opens a window onto the meaning of nationality, transnationalism, and homeland in our time. For more than thirty-five years U.S.-Cuban relations have been couched in terms of the Cold War, often pitting Cubans in the diaspora against Cubans who remain in their homeland. Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba celebrates the informal networks that Cubans in both countries have maintained through artistic, academic, family, an
Author: Matt D. Childs
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: cuba, slavery, envisioning, atlantic, struggle, rebellion, aponte
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-11-27
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0807857726
ISBN-13: 9780807857724
In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts.Childs explains how slaves and free people of color responded to the nineteenth-century "sugar boom" in the Spanish colony by planning a rebellion against racial slavery and plantation agriculture. Striking alliances among free people of color and slaves, blacks an
Author: JOAQUIN ROY
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: cuba, international, reactions, contemporary, doctrine, burton, united, states, helms
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-05-21
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0813017602
ISBN-13: 9780813017600
An analysis of the Helms-Burton law, reviewing the background and consequences of this controversial legislation, enacted in 1996. It argues that the law is a codification of four decades of a US embargo aimed at discouraging foreign investment and hastening the collapse of the Castro regime.
Author: Julia E Sweig
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: needs, everyone, cuba
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0195383796
ISBN-13: 9780195383799
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America’s fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro’s larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has kowtowed to it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself? In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia Sweig, one of America’s l
Author: Paul Myers
Publisher: lulu.com
Keywords: cuba
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $8.36
ISBN-10: 1847994857
ISBN-13: 9781847994851
From landing in Havana, hoofing it all the way down to Trinidad and back in a rented Mexican built Nissan (with special insurance on the tyres in case they get stolen by raft builders), the author vividly describes his hellish time in the Caribbean’s biggest island nation during Fidel Castro’s ’Special Period’. Compared to Bill Bryson, this is a travel tale of three weeks in the Sunshine Socialist State where extortion, confrontation, dolphins, kidnapping, appalling food and a chance meeting with ’The Leader’ became a story worth telling. And all the author
