The Cuba reader: history, culture, politics

I. Indigenous society and conquest. Christopher Columbus "Discovers" Cuba / Christopher Columbus ; The devastation of the Indies / Bartolomé de Las Casas ; Spanish officials and indigenous resistance / Various Spanish Officials ; A world destroyed / Juan Pérez de la Riva ; "Transculturation" and Cuba / Fernando Ortiz ; Survival stories / José Barreiro

II. Sugar, slavery, and colonialism. A physician's notes on Cuba / John G. F. Wurdemann ; The death of the forest / Manuel Moreno Fraginals ; Autobiography of a slave / Juan Francisco Manzano ; Biography of a runaway slave / Miguel Barnet ; Fleeing slavery / Miguel Barnet, Pedro Deschamps Chapeaux, Rafael García, and Rafael Duharte ; Santiago de Cuba's fugitive slaves / Rafael Duharte ; Rumba / Yvonne Daniel ; The trade in Chinese laborers / Richard Dana ; Life on a coffee plantation / John G. F. Wurdemann ; Cuba's first railroad / David Turnbull ; The color line / José Antonio Saco ; Abolition! / Father Félix Varela ; Cecilia Valdés / Cirilo Villaverde ; Sab / Gerturdis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga ; An Afro-Cuban poet / Plácido

III. The struggle for independence. Freedom and slavery / Carlos Manuel de Céspedes ; Memories of a Cuban girl / Renée Méndez Capote ; José Martí's "Our America" / José Martí ; Guantanamera / José Martí ; The explosion of the Maine / New York Journal ; U.S. cartoonists portray Cuba / John J. Johnson ; The devastation of counterinsurgency / Fifty-Fifth Congress, Second Session

IV. Neocolonialism. The Platt Amendment / President Theodore Roosevelt ; Imperialism and sanitation / Nancy Stepan ; A child of the Platt Amendment / Renée Méndez Capote ; Spain in Cuba / Manuel Moreno Fraginals ; The Independent Party of Color / El Partido Independiente de Color ; A survivor / Isidoro Santos Carrera ; Rachel's Song / Miguel Barnet ; Honest women / Miguel de Carrión ; A crucial decade / Loló de la Torriente ; Afrocubanismo and son / Robin Moore ; Drums in my eyes / Nicolás Guillén ; Abakuá / Rafael López Valdés ; The first wave of Cuban feminism / Ofelia Domínguez Navarro ; Life at the mill / Ursinio Rojas ; Migrant workers in the sugar industry / Levi Marrero ; The Cuban counterpoint / Fernando Ortiz ; The invasion of the tourists / Rosalie Schwartz ; Waiting tables in Havana / Cipriano Chinea Palero and Lynn Geldof ; The brothel of the Caribbean / Tomás Fernández Robaina ; Sugarcane / Nicolás Guillén ; Where is Cuba headed? / Julio Antonio Mella ; The chase / Alejo Carpentier ; The fall of Machado / R. Hart Phillips ; Sugar mills and Soviets / Salvador Rionda ; The United States confronts the 1933 Revolution / Sumner Welles and Cordell Hull ; The political gangster / Samuel Farber ; The United Fruit Company in Cuba / Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro García ; Cuba's largest inheritance / Manuel Hernández Torres ; The last call / Eduardo A. Chibás ; Three comandantes talk it over / Carlos Franqui ; History will absolve me / Fidel Castro ; Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War / Che Guevara ; The United States rules Cuba, 1952-1958 / Morris Morley ; The Cuban story in the New York Times / Herbert L. Matthews

V. Building a new society. Troubadours of the Revolution / Silvio Rodríguez ; Castro announces the Revolution / Fidel Castro ; How the poor got more / Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins, and Michael Scott ; Fish à la Grande Jardinière / Humberto Arenal ; Women in the swamps / Margaret Randall ; Socialism and man / Che Guevara ; In the fist of the Revolution / José Yglesias ; The Agrarian Revolution / Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins, and Michael Scott ; 1961 : the year of education / Richard R. Fagen ; The literacy campaign / Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, and Susan M. Rigdon ; The family code / Margaret Randall ; The original sin / Pablo Milanés ; Where the island sleeps like a wing / Nancy Morejón ; Silence on Black Cuba / Carlos Moore ; Black man in Red Cuba / John Clytus ; Postmodern maroon in the ultimate Palenque / Christian Parenti ; From utopianism to institutionalization / Juan Antonio Blanco and Medea Benjamin

VI. Culture and revolution. Caliban / Roberto Fernández Retamar ; For an imperfect cinema / Julio García Espinosa ; Dance and social change / Yvonne Daniel ; Revolutionary sport / Paula Pettavino and Geralyn Pye ; In hard times / Heberto Padilla ; The Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba's patron saint / Olga Portuondo Zúñiga ; A conversation on Santería and Palo Monte / Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, and Susan M. Rigdon ; The Catholic Church and the Revolution / Ernesto Cardenal

VII. The Cuban revolution and the world. The Venceremos Brigades / Sandra Levinson ; The Cuban Revolution and the New Left / Van Gosse ; The U.S. government responds to Revolution / Foreign Relations of the United States ; Castro calls on Cubans to resist the Counterrevolution / Fidel Castro ; Operation Mongoose / Edward Lansdale ; Offensive missiles on that imprisoned island / President John F. Kennedy ; Inconsolable memories : a Cuban view of the Missile Crisis / Edmundo Desnoes ; The assassination plots / Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities ; Cuban refugee children / Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh ; From welcomed exiles to illegal immigrants / Felix Roberto Masud-Piloto ; Wrong channel / Roberto Fernández ; City on the edge / Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick ; Singing for Nicaragua / Silvio Rodríguez ; Cuban medical diplomacy / Julie Feinsilver

The Período Especial. Silvio Rodríguez sings of the special period / Silvio Rodríguez ; Zippy goes to Cuba / Bill Griffith ; "Special period in peacetime" : economic and labor reforms / Susan Eva Eckstein ; The Revolution turns forty / Saul Landau ; Colonizing the Cuban body / G. Derrick Hodge ; Pope John Paul II speaks in Cuba / Pope John Paul II ; Elián González and the "Real Cuba" of Miami / Lillian Guerra ; Civil society / Haroldo Dilla ; Forty years later / Senel Paz

IX. Cuba after Fidel : continuities and transitions. Economy and society. Raúl's reforms / Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva ; Emigration in the twenty-first century / Antonio Aja ; Tourism and the many faces of Havana's Chinatown / Adrian H. Hearn ; The antiracist debate in today's Cuba / Zuleica Romay Guerra ; Afro-Cuban activists fight racism between two fires / Sujatha Fernandes ; Race and Cuban hip-hop / Marc D. Perry ; The "Pavonato" / Marc Frank ; Short stories / Laidi Fernández de Juan ; His cigar / Marilyn Bobes ; Gender, sexuality, and AIDS / Mariela Castro and Jorge Pérez ; A theory of Reguetón / Iván de la Nuez

12/17 and U.S.-Cuban relations. Spies, counterspies, and dissidents / Wikileaks and Tracey Eaton ; Francis, Obama, and Raúl / José Ángel Rodríguez López ; Obama and us / Rafael Hernández ; "Visit Cuba before it changes!" / Louis A. Pérez Jr.

Perspectives on Cuba's new realities. New Cuban voices / Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada and Cristina Escobar ; "El Paquete" : Internet in Cuba / Víctor Fowler ; A new film law / G/20, Cuban Filmmakers' Working Group ; So as not to throw out the sofa (Editorial song) / Silvio Rodríguez ; Spyglass / Dúo Buena Fe ; Commentaries on Fidel Castro's death / Rafael Hernández and Harold Cárdenas Lema.