Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
Havana Before Castro
When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Featuring hundreds of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other materials evocative of time and place, Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground documents how the city of Havana evolved from Prohibition haven and rich man's playground to a heady blend of glittering nightclubs,...
by Edward J. Neyra
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
From 1990 to 2000, the Hispanic population increased nearly 60 percent and is one of the nation's largest minority group
In 1962, eleven-year-old Edward Neyra left his homeland of Cuba as part of a secret operation that relocated 14,000 children to the United States before the Cuban Missile...
by José Martí y Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Originalmente concebido como una revista, La edad de oro es el libro infantil por excelencia de la literatura de Cuba del siglo XIX. José Martí expone aquí su proyecto latinoamericanista.
by Jorge Mañach Robato
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
La presente antología de Jorge Mañach, contiene tres de sus más conocidos ensayos Indagación del choteo, La crisis de la alta cultura en Cuba y Barú, Clavelito y compañía.
Cubano Be, Cubano Bop
One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Based on unprecedented research in Cuba, the direct testimony of scores of Cuban musicians, and the author's unique experience as a prominent jazz musician, Cubano Be, Cubano Bop is destined to take its place among the classics of jazz history. The work pays tribute not only to a distinguished lineage...
Negro Soy Yo
Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways...
Broadcasting Modernity
Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
The birth and development of commercial television in Cuba in the 1950s occurred alongside political and social turmoil. In this period of dramatic swings encompassing democracy, a coup, a dictatorship, and a revolution, television functioned as a beacon and promoter of Cuba’s identity as a modern...
Waiting for Snow in Havana
Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2003
“Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana—exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at...
by José Latour
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Major political, economic and social events in the Republic of Cuba in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st.
The Boys from Dolores
Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement and leadership....
The Yankee Comandante
The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American's Fight to Liberate Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of Cuba. He led one band of guerrillas, and Che Guevara another, and together they swept through the country, ultimately forcing corrupt dictator Fulgencio...
by Eric G. Swedin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and -organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were soundly defeated. Most were taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads...
The Brilliant Disaster
JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
A “balanced, engrossing account” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the vivid truth of five pivotal days in April 1961.
At the heart of the Bay of Pigs crisis stood President John F. Kennedy, and journalist Jim...
Vendetta!
Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
As the Cold War reaches its height, so does postwar prosperity, and the American people celebrate their optimism by electing as president the young, charismatic John F. Kennedy. Just 90 miles from the United States, the Cuban people are celebrating the rise of Fidel Castro, their own young and charismatic...