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Class Schedule

*Note this is a living document and subject to minor changes

August 25 - Course introduction

September 1 - Broad sweep of Cuban history
  • Weeks, "Cuba"
  • Iyer, "Why We Travel"

September 8 - Presentations on a Cuban composer, singer, playwright, movie director, film or song
  • Pérez, "As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past"
  • Larsson, "Havana's dirty truths: rubbish-strewn streets spark anger at city's failings"

September 15 - Collective memory and the role of museums
  • Halbwachs, On Collective Memory [selections]
  • Cabral, "Exhibiting and communicating history and society in historic house museums"

September 22 - Cuba, colonial society and politics
  • Mraz, "Recasting Cuban Slavery: The Other Francisco and The Last Supper"
  • Class discussion on The Other Francisco and The Last Supper [on reserve in library; watch before coming to class]
    • Online versions of The Other Francisco and The Last Supper

September 29 - Cuba, from colony to independence without sovereignty
  • Daniel, "Rumba"
  • Dana, "The Trade in Chinese Laborers"
  • Céspedes, "Freedom and Slavery"
  • Martí, "Our America"
  • Martí, "Guantanamera"
  • Johnson, "U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba"

October 6 - Baseball's role in Cuban identity
  • Pérez, "Between Baseball and Bullfighting: The Quest for Nationality  in Cuba, 1868-1898" [pdf]

October 13 - Neocolonialism
  • Moore, "Afrocubanismo and Son"
  • Guillén, "Drums in My Eyes"
  • Fernández Robaina, "The Brothel of the Caribbean"
  • Guillén, "Sugarcane"
  • Mella, "Where is Cuba Headed?"

October 20 - The Revolution
  • Castro, "What Cuba's Rebels Want"
  • Matthews, "The Cuban Story in the New York Times"
  • Cienfuegos, "For Every Traitor Who Appears, We Will Make New Revolutionary Laws"
  • Rodríguez, "Tornado"
  • Castro, "This a Revolution of the Humble, by the Humble and for the Humble"
  • Proclamation 3447 of the United States of America, February 3, 1962
  • Class discussion on documentary film The Cold War. The Cuban Missile Crisis

October 27 - The Revolution - Society and Economy
  • Fagen, "1961: The Year of Education"
  • Lewis, et. al., "The Literacy Campaign"
  • Milanés, "The Original Sin"
  • Puebla, "Carlos Puebla Sings about the Economy"
  • Rodríguez, "Silvio Rodríguez Sings of the Special Period"
  • Cardenal, "The Catholic Church and the Revolution"
  • Pope John Paul II, "Pope John Paul II Speaks in Cuba"
  • Miller, "Havana's Jewish Community"

November 3 - The Revolution and its Cultural Impact
  • Fernández Retamar, "Caliban"
  • García Espinosa, "For an Imperfect Cinema"
  • Daniel, "Dance and Social Change"
  • Pettavino and Pye, "Revolutionary Sport"
  • Cabrera Infante, ""Mea Cuba"
  • Padilla, "In Hard Times"
  • Portuondo Zúñiga, "The Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba's Patron Saint"
  • Lewis, et. al., "A Conversation on Santería and Palo Monte"

November 10 - Cuba and the Special Period
  • Frank, Cuban Revelations, Part I
  • Class discussion on Strawberries and Chocolate

November 17 - Contemporary Cuba
  • Frank, Cuban Revelations, Parts II and III
  • "Cuba For Sale," Al Jazeera English

December 1 - Contemporary Cuba
  • Frank, Cuban Revelations, Part IV

January 5 - ¡Vamos a Cuba!
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