Silvio Rodríguez Sings of the Special Period

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I Indigenous Society and Conquest
6. Christopher Columbus ‘‘Discovers’’ Cuba 7
7. The Devastation of the Indies 12
8. Spanish Officials and Indigenous Resistance. Various Spanish Officials 15
9. A World Destroyed 20
10. ‘‘Transculturation’’ and Cuba 26
11. Survival Stories 28
12. II Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism
13. A Physician’s Notes on Cuba 37
14. The Death of the Forest 44
15. Autobiography of a Slave 49
16. Biography of a Runaway Slave 58
17. Fleeing Slavery 65
18. Santiago de Cuba’s Fugitive Slaves 69
19. Rumba 74
20. The Trade in Chinese Laborers 79
21. Life on a Coffee Plantation 83
22. Cuba’s First Railroad 88
23. The Color Line 91
24. Abolition! 94
25. Cecilia Valdés 97
26. Sab 103
27. An Afro-Cuban Poet 110
28. III The Struggle for Independence
29. Freedom and Slavery 115
30. Memories of a Cuban Girl 118
31. José Martí’s ‘‘Our America’’ 122
32. Guantanamera 128
33. The Explosion of the Maine. New York Journal 130
34. U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba 135
35. The Devastation of Counterinsurgency. Fifty-fifth Congress, Second Session 139
36. IV Neocolonialism
37. The Platt Amendment 147
38. Imperialism and Sanitation 150
39. A Child of the Platt Amendment 154
40. Spain in Cuba 157
41. The Independent Party of Color. El Partido Independiente de Color 163
42. A Survivor 167
43. Rachel’s Song 171
44. Honest Women 180
45. Generals and Doctors 186
46. A Crucial Decade 189
47. Afrocubanismo and Son 192
48. Drums in My Eyes 201
49. Abakuá 212
50. The First Wave of Cuban Feminism 219
51. Life at the Mill 226
52. Migrant Workers in the Sugar Industry 234
53. The Cuban Counterpoint 239
54. The Invasion of the Tourists 244
55. Waiting Tables in Havana 253
56. The Brothel of the Caribbean 257
57. A Prostitute Remembers 260
58. Sugarcane 264
59. Where Is Cuba Headed? 265
60. The Chase 270
61. The Fall of Machado 274
62. Sugar Mills and Soviets 281
63. The United States Confronts the 1933 Revolution 283
64. The Political Gangster 287
65. The United Fruit Company in Cuba 290
66. Cuba’s Largest Inheritance. Bohemia 296
67. The Last Call 298
68. For Us, It Is Always the 26th of July 300
69. Three Comandantes Talk It Over 302
70. History Will Absolve Me 306
71. Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War 315
72. The United States Rules Cuba, 1952–1958 321
73. The Cuban Story in the New York Times 326
74. V Building a New Society
75. And Then Fidel Arrived 333
76. Tornado 340
77. Castro Announces the Revolution 341
78. How the Poor Got More 344
79. Fish à la Grande Jardinière 354
80. Women in the Swamps 363
81. Man and Socialism 370
82. In the Fist of the Revolution 375
83. The Agrarian Revolution 378
84. 1961: The Year of Education 386
85. The Literacy Campaign 389
86. The ‘‘Rehabilitation’’ of Prostitutes 395
87. The Family Code 399
88. Homosexuality, Creativity, Dissidence 406
89. The Original Sin 412
90. Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing 414
91. Silence on Black Cuba 419
92. Black Man in Red Cuba 424
93. Post-modern Maroon in the Ultimate Palenque 427
94. From Utopianism to Institutionalization 433
95. Carlos Puebla Sings about the Economy 443
96. VI Culture and Revolution
97. Caliban 449
98. For an Imperfect Cinema 458
99. Dance and Social Change 466
100. Revolutionary Sport 475
101. Mea Cuba 481
102. In Hard Times 488
103. The Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba’s Patron Saint 490
104. A Conversation on Santería and Palo Monte 498
105. The Catholic Church and the Revolution 505
106. Havana’s Jewish Community 509
107. VII The Cuban Revolution and the World
108. The Venceremos Brigades 515
109. The Cuban Revolution and the New Left 526
110. The U.S. Government Responds to Revolution. Foreign Relations of the United States 530
111. Castro Calls on Cubans to Resist the Counterrevolution 536
112. Operation Mongoose 540
113. Offensive Missiles on That Imprisoned Island 544
114. Inconsolable Memories: A Cuban View of the Missile Crisis 547
115. The Assassination Plots Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities 552
116. Cuban Refugee Children 557
117. From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants 561
118. Wrong Channel 566
119. We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? 568
120. City on the Edge 581
121. Singing for Nicaragua 588
122. Cuban Medical Diplomacy 590
123. VIII The ‘‘Período Especial’’ and the Future of the Revolution
124. Silvio Rodríguez Sings of the Special Period 595
125. From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary 607
126. The Revolution Turns Forty 623
127. Colonizing the Cuban Body 628
128. Pope John Paul II Speaks in Cuba 635
129. Emigration in the Special Period 637
130. The Old Man and the Boy 644
131. Civil Society 650
132. Forty Years Later 660
133. A Dissident Speaks Out 664
134. One More Assassination Plot 666
135. An Errand in Havana 671
136. No Turning Back for Johnny 678
137. Suggestions for Further Reading 691
138. Acknowledgment of Copyrights 701
139. Index 713