Cuba beyond the Beach
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Cuba beyond the Beach

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Cuba beyond the Beach

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Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents—old Communist ladies, their sceptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors—go about their daily lives.

As Cuba undergoes dramatic change, there is much to appreciate, and learn from, in the unlikely world Cubans have collectively built for themselves.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Queen's University Student Overseas Travel Fund—The Sonia Enjamio Fund, which funds Cuban/Canadian student exchange.

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Publisher
Between the Lines
Year
2016
ISBN
9781771132701
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Hispanic American Studies
Index
Social Sciences

INDEX

[Note: page numbers in italics refer to images]
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 23
Adrisani, Vincent, 47
advertisements, 47, 50
agromercado (market), 35–36
Aitkin, Max (Lord Beaverbrook), 11
alcohol poisoning scandal, 147–48
Alfonso, Carlos, 107
Alfonso, Eme, 107
Alfonso, Gerardo, 92, 95
Alfonso, X, 19, 106–12; “Mi Abuelo Dice” [My Grandfather Says], 108; “Revoluxcion,” 112
Allende, Salvador, 38
AlmodĂłvar, Pedro, 25
Ameneiro, Rochy, 97, 102–4
Anti-Imperialist Tribunal (protestodromo), 4, 88
apartment matching, 31
Arafat, Yasser, 22
Bajo el mismo sol [Under the Same Sun], 103
Baker, Geoffrey, 77
Bank of Nova Scotia, 14–15, 16
Baraka, Amiri, 20
Barreto: “Viente Años” [Twenty Years], 73
baseball, 51–52
Bastian Martinez, Hope, 128–30
Batista, Fulgencio, 11, 17
Bay of Pigs invasion, 61
Belafonte, Harry, 77
BeltrĂĄn, Marcel, 168
Belyea, Susan, 5, 36, 44, 54, 91, 105
Belyea Dubinsky, Jordi, 6, 62, 64, 105, 162, 168–70, 182
Beyoncé, 2, 170
bicycles, 42
Bieber, Justin, 16
bodegas, 36, 39
BolĂ­var, SimĂłn, 68
Borges-Triana, Joaquín, 16, 26, 76–77, 91, 92, 164, 166–67
brand consciousness, 118
Browne, Jackson, 81
Bryans, Billy, 99
Buena Vista Social Club, 97
Bueno, Descemer, 26, 178–79
Bunnett, Jane, 99
Bush, George W., 4
Café Madrigal, 121
cakes, 42–44
Callejon de Hamel, 126–27
Campos-Pons, Maria Magdalena, 47
Canada: Cuban diaspora in, 18; cultural influences on Cuba, 16–17; diplomatic ties with Cuba, 11–12; economi...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  5. INTRODUCTION: MORE THAN A BEACH, MORE THAN A REVOLUTION
  6. ONE: GENTE DE ZONA: PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
  7. TWO: THOSE WHO DREAM WITH THEIR EARS: THE SOUND OF HAVANA
  8. THREE: LA NUEVA CUBA: LIFE IN THE NEW ECONOMY
  9. FOUR: CUBANS IN THE WORLD, THE WORLD IN CUBA
  10. CONCLUSION: TODO SERÁ DISTINTO? OUR UNCERTAIN FUTURES
  11. NOTES
  12. INDEX
  13. Back cover