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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Cuban-American"”.
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Performing exile: Cuban-American women’s performance art, 1972-2014
… of exile as seen in the relationship between Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s attempt to restage 2009’s Tatlin’s Whisper #6 and President Barack Obama’s 2014 announcement of normalizing relations between the two nations.
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The Other at War: Performing the Spanish-Cuban-American War on U.S. and Cuban Stages
<p>The Spanish-Cuban-American War, declared by the United States on April 25, 1898, marks a colonial shift in the history of the Caribbean and solidified the expansionist thrust of the United States outside national borders. Theatres in turn-of-the-century New York, which at this point was one of …
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"It was time to put the trauma aside" : how Cuban-American women cope with sexual assault
… paradigm to understand the lived experiences of Cuban-American women survivors of sexual assault from their perspectives by using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis approach. Participants were 5 Cuban-American women who self-identified as survivors of sexual assault, spoke Spanish …
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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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Cuban Embargo: An Insufficient Measure to Encourage US Foreign Policy Interests
This major paper examines the Cuban embargo as an ineffective hard power policy and explores the potential of soft, hard, and smart power as alternative approaches to resolve the failures of the 60-year-old blockade. The paper analyzes the historical context and rationale behind the embargo and …
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Being “Other”: Ana Mendieta’s Artistic Practice and Feminist Politics within Arts Institutions
This thesis examines the art and politics of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta through her engagement with three arts institutions: 1) the University of Iowa; 2) Heresies: A Journal of Feminist Art and Politics; and 3) Artist in Residence Gallery (A.I.R.). I explore these three institutions …
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Ana Mendieta- a search for identity
Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American female artist, whose work was a continuing search for identity throughout her life. She often searched for her roots in the earth itself, using it directly in her art and with her own body. This "return to the earth" was a metaphor for her life on many levels. …
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Cuban Americans and type 2 diabetes : describing self-management decision making using an empowerment framework
… day-to-day self-management decision making in Cuban Americans with type 2 diabetes including major decisions, resources and influences to decisions, desired amount of control and advice, and the role of the health care provider. The sample consisted of 20 English speaking, Cuban-American adults …
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Mapeando la cultura Kruda: Hip-Hop, Punk Rock y performances queer latino contemporáneo
… in distinct contemporary U.S. Latino/a and Latin American contexts through analyses of the revolutionary feminist Cuban hip-hop group, <i>Las Krudas</i>, the work of the Uruguayan-American activist Martin Sorrondeguy in his hardcore punk and queercore groups, <i>Los Crudos</i> and <i>Limp …
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Hidden Black and Brown Bridges: The Mutual Influences of Dr. Martin Luther King and Hispanic Theologian Dr. Justo González
… (Fellowship of Reconciliation). González is a Cuban American Methodist who has written more than 50 books and 300 articles in the field of Hispanic theology. Additionally, González founded the first academic journal dedicated to the impact of Latino theology, known as <em>Apuntes</em>. This …
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The Choteadora's Body in Performance: Carmelita Tropicana and the Intersectional Strategy of Choteo
… Tropicana is the performance persona of Cuban-American, queer performer Alina Troyano. Choteo is a representational strategy that irreverently subverts the context and content of its referent. This doctoral study proposes that Carmelita’s work activates choteo in an intersectional and …
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Representations of Trauma in Contemporary American Literature and Film: Moving from Erasure to Creative Transformation
… events have been represented in contemporary American literature and film. Intersecting archival, trauma, literary and film studies, this project highlights connections across politics of institutions and politics of identity by considering the creative transformation of trauma in …
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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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Housing La Habana Vieja: Reframing the Formal and Informal Vernacular
… appropriate the design philosophy of Cuban-American architect Belmont Freeman. The context investigates the underpinnings of housing attitudes by identifying milestones and gaining perspective from dialogue with the residents of la Habana Vieja. Documenting the formal and informal …
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Cultural models of food in cuban miami: Roots, Yucas, and Moros
Roots, Yucas, and Moros are all foods that Cubans commonly eat, and these foods are also are imbued with symbolic meaning. Roots are one of the few vegetables present in the typical Cuban diet. And roots represent the powerful first generation Cubans who arrived in the 1960s after Castro first came …
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Writing insurrection: U.S. literature and the politics of Latin American intervention, 1898 to 2010
… contest military intervention, and to urge American readers to intercede for hemispheric human 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 …
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Doves Don't Fly Here
<p><em>Doves Don’t Fly Here </em>is a speculative fiction short novel that experiments with the physical presentation of text while exploring the complicated, evolving relationships between Latinx Catholicism, Santería/Regla de Ocha, queerness, and familial and ancestral ties. Within the novel, …
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Cuban Immigrants’ Experience with Acculturation and How They Cope in the United States
… This research examines how Cuban immigrants experience cope and adapt to the United States. Cuban immigration is associated with specific stressors related to the immigration experience and the necessary process of acculturation and assimilation. These major stressors can …