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Books on Cuba
The Autobiography of a
Slave /
Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba
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Santeria from
Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories
Fidel Castro and
the Quest for a Revolutionary Culture in Cuba
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Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the
Twentieth
Century
Singular Like a Bird: The Art of Nancy Morejon
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Caliban
and Other Essays /
The
Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball
Santeria
Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin America Art /
Culture and
Customs of Cuba /
Man-making Words; Selected Poems
of Nicholas Guillen
Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity on
Contemporary Cuba /
Afro-Cuba: An Anthology of Cuban Writing
on Race, Politics, and Culture
Nicolas Guillen:
Popular Poet of the Caribbean /
Selected Poetry by Nancy Morejon
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Cuba: After the
Revolution
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The Third Hurricane
Reflections by
Fidel Castro
It could lose
strength but it is already raining in most of the
country. It’s raining on farming areas absolutely
drenched by the recent rainfalls. The water reservoirs
filled up to almost full capacity due to hurricanes
Gustav and Ike will be releasing water on cultivated
fields and valleys. This already happened at the end of
August and early September. This hurricane has been
given the misleading name of Paloma.
After countless
hours of labor, many crops almost ready for harvesting
as well as fuel, seeds, fertilizers, herbicides and the
work of the equipment used to urgently grow food will
again be lost.
In many places
where the families awaited for and received materials to
repair their homes, and where they excitedly applauded
the workers who were reestablishing electricity so vital
to many services, will again partly live through the
same experience.
Once again
destruction will revisit highways, roads and other works
in various provinces of the country.
The latest report
from the Meteorology Institute’s National Forecast
Center has confirmed the inexorable development of the
event. Nevertheless, we should not be discouraged by
adversity. Paloma is not covering such an extensive area
as Gustav.
Our people should
learn from every such event about the consequences of
climate change and the ecologic unbalance, which are
some of the many problems humanity is facing.
The initial
estimates of the economic damages caused by the two
previous hurricanes were short of reality. The losses
amounted to 8 billions instead of the 5 billions
originally announced. This time there will be additional
damages.
The cadres who are
decidedly and restlessly coming to grips with the
problems shall insist on demanding from their
compatriots that they respond to these adverse
circumstances with hard work in both production and
services.
And, if the chief
of the empire and leading promoter of the genocidal
blockade on our country were to offer again his pious
assistance, he would again receive a dignified response:
it would certainly be rejected. Our people demand that
the blockade is lifted, especially now that humanity has
unanimously called for it amidst a financial crisis
which is pounding on every developed and developing
nation on the Earth.
There are still
some who dream of submitting Cuba using the criminal
blockade as an instrument of the U.S. foreign policy
against our homeland. If that country made the same
mistake again it could spend another century
implementing that useless policy against Cuba; that is,
if the empire could last that long.
Fidel Castro Ruz
November 7, 2008
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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
stock
market. True wealth has more to do with
what's in your heart than what's in your
wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons
became one of America's shrewdest
entrepreneurs, achieving a level of
success that most investors only dream
about. No matter how much material gain
he accumulated, he never stopped lending
a hand to those less fortunate. In
Super Rich, Simmons uses his rare
blend of spiritual savvy and
street-smart wisdom to offer a new
definition of wealth-and share timeless
principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
financial storm. As Simmons says, "Happy
can make you money, but money can't make
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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