Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-first Century.
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, Durham & London, 2005
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Ex-library, label at rear removed damaging cover. 253 pages. Essay collection covering various economic and political issues facing modern Cuba.
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- Title
- Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-first Century.
- Author
- Edited by Lydia Chavez
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, Durham & London
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good.
- Binding
- Softcover.
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822334941
- ISBN 13
- 9780822334941
- Illustrator
- With photographs by Mimi Chakarova.
- Seller catalogs
- Business, Economics
Based on reporting by journalists, writers, and documentary filmmakers since 2001, each of the essays collected here covers a particular dimension of contemporary Cuban society, revealing what it is like to have lived, for more than a decade, suspended between communism and capitalism. There are pieces on hip hop musicians, fiction writing and censorship, the state of ballet and the performing arts, and the role of computers and the Internet. Other essays address the shrinking yet still sizeable numbers of true believers in the promise of socialist revolution, the legendary cigar industry, the changing state of religion, the significance of the recent influx of money and people from Spain, and the tensions between recent Cuban emigrants and previous generations of exiles. Including more than seventy striking documentary photographs of Cuba’s people, countryside, and city streets, this richly illustrated collection offers keen, even-handed insights into the abundant ironies of life in Cuba today.
Contributors. Juliana Barbassa, Ana Campoy, Mimi Chakarova, Lydia Chávez, John Coté, Julian Foley, Angel González, Megan Lardner, Ezequiel Minaya, Daniela Mohor, Archana Pyati, Alicia Roca, Olga R. Rodríguez, Bret Sigler, Annelise Wunderlich
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About the Author
Lydia Chávez is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Journalism and Chair of the Executive Committee for the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a former reporter for the New York Times in Latin America, where she served as bureau chief in San Salvador and Buenos Aires. She has written for the New York Times Sunday Magazine and the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine and contributed op-ed pieces to the New York Times and San Francisco Examiner. She is the author of The Color Bind: California's Battle to End Affirmative Action.
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