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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Cuban Revolution"”.
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A case study of the Cuban revolution : an uncommon case of drastic social change
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Beyond the Sports Page: Baseball, The Cuban Revolution, and Rochester, New York Newspapers, 1954-1960
… of Cuba underwent a series of emphatic and revolutionary changes, culminating in Fidel Castro's regime coming to power in early 1959. A year later, relations between the Cuban government and their American counterpart had deteriorated rapidly to the point of rhetoric, economic sanctions, and …
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Theological Higher Education in Cuba: A Case Study of the Eastern Cuba Baptist Theological Seminary
… context of theological education in Cuba and the Cuban Revolution. Three major purposes directed this research. The first one was historical: to document and evaluate the rise, survival and achievements of the Eastern Cuba Baptist Theological Seminary, which has continued its mission through …
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Drawing Through A Linear Temperament
… Fundamentalism, globalization and the digital revolution. Furthermore, the main arguments draw upon my Cuban origin and European ancestry, the Cuban Revolution, my Belgian early education and eventual American hybrid identity. The overriding theme, however, concerns the continuing relevance of …
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Real estate investment in Cuba : is now the right time?
On the eve of the fifty-year anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, change finally appears to be on the horizon for Cuba. In February 2008, Raul Castro succeeded his older brother Fidel as President of the Republic of Cuba. In the United States, a newly elected President and a Congress presumably …
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JOURNEYING THROUGH EXODUS, DISPLACEMENT, AND MY CUBAN-AMERICAN IDENTITY: THE ODYSSEY OF MAKING AND BECOMING WAKING DARKNESS. WAITING LIGHT.
… well as investigations into my own identity as a Cuban-American. This paper journeys through the autobiographical research and collaboration process that went into creating Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. Sewn into the fabric of this paper is personal poetry written as part of my creative …
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The U.S. Army School of the Americas and U.S. National Interests in the 20th Century
… such as the Berlin Blockade, the Korean War, the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War, the school continuously reorganized to grant the United States a clear political advantage to influence rising military leaders, government leaders, and consequently its political …
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SINO–LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS: 1959–1976
… unofficial trade relations, spurred by the Cuban Revolution and Sino–Soviet Split. The Cultural Revolution in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) interrupted the development of Sino–Latin American relations during the late 1960s. The development of Sino–Latin American ties resumed in …
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Cuban Artist, Leo Brouwer, and his solo guitar works: Pieza Sin Titulo To Elogio de la Danza. A contextual-analytical study.
… investigates wide-ranging issues central to the Cuban artist, Leo Brouwer (b. 1939). Although considered by some scholars as perhaps the most significant living composer for the guitar in the twentieth century, Brouwer has not achieved the wide acclaim he deserves. This stems mainly from the …
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INTIMATE ENEMIES: VISUAL CULTURE AND U.S.-CUBAN RELATIONS, 1945-2000
… connections, produced before the 1959 Cuban revolution, assisted in fortifying linkages between the two nations; whereas after the revolution, adversarial imagery further splintered the relation between the two countries. I argue that the visual culture produced in Cuba and the United …
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The Cold War and decolonization in British Guiana: The Anglo-American intervention and Guianese nationalist politics
… increasingly aggressive foreign policy after the Cuban Revolution in 1959 that was in conflict with United States Cold War goals. Meanwhile, Forbes Burnham and the People's National Congress (PNC) sought to establish a working relationship with the United States. As a result, the United States and …
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The Costs of Cuba Libre: U.S. Neo-Imperialism, Tourism in Cuba, and the Habana Hilton
… the “Spanish-American War” in 1898 and the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The research it presents was prompted by a set of photographs taken at the grand opening of the Habana Hilton in March 1958, part of the Bern and Franke Keating Collection, held in the Archives and Special Collections at …
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Archiving the revolution : claiming history in Cuban literature and film
… were responsible for the construction of the Cuban Revolutionary Archive. On one hand, the immediate foundation of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) three months after the triumph of Fidel Castro's 26 of July guerrilla movement in 1959, showed the urgency to establish a cinematic apparatus that …
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En Busca Del Macho Y Otras Ficciones: Representaciones Contemporáneas De Masculinidades Latinoamericanas.
… of male subjectivity in Latin America, from the Cuban Revolution to the consolidation of neoliberalism. Rather than a diachronic description, it is a composition of three synchronic studies of the literary and cinematic representation mechanisms of different masculinities in works by creators …
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Plantation America: the US South and the Caribbean in the literary culture of empire, 1898-1959
… from the Spanish-American War of 1898, to the Cuban Revolution of 1959. It contributes to recent US-based scholarship on the plantation origins of Western modernity and draws on an older Black and Caribbean critical discourse on the plantation as a prototypically modern institution. Building on …
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Hunger and Meaning in the Novels of Cristina García
… anthropologist Fernando Ortiz’s contribution to Cuban cultural memory and his metaphor of transculturación through Cuba’s national dish, the ajiaco. The ajiaco, a soup, will be considered in connection to slavery and forced labour on the sugar plantations in Cuba. It symbolises the amalgamation …
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FICCIÓN ESPECULATIVA EN NARRADORES CUBANOS DE LA GENERACIÓN CERO
This dissertation presents an approach to the Cuban speculative fiction created by some of the writers belonging to the group called Generación Cero. The study includes six literary works published between 2006 and 2018. The set of narratives that make up this research articulate the speculative to …
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Writing insurrection: U.S. literature and the politics of Latin American intervention, 1898 to 2010
… rights. In chapters devoted to the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the 1959 Cuban Revolution, and the Central American “dirty wars” of the 1970s and ‘80s, my dissertation studies popular print culture alongside canonical Anglo and Latina/o authors to illuminate the vital place of Latin America in U.S. …
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Youth Culture and the Politics of Youth in 1960s Cuba
… triple coordinates of youth, the Sixties and the Cuban Revolution interact to create a rich but relatively unexplored field of historical research. Previous studies of youth in Cuba have assumed a separation between young people and the Revolution, and either objectify young people as units that …
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Teaching Revolution: Women Primary School Teachers, Race, and Social Reproduction in Cuba
… that critically engage the life and work of Cuban teachers. The majority of existing texts about Cuban education homogenize the teaching force and instead focus on the achievements of the 1961 Literacy Campaign and quantitative markers of student achievement.</p> <p>This research is a …
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