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Title Capitalism, God, and a good cigar : Cuba enters the twenty-first century / edited by Lydia Chávez ; with photographs by Mimi Chakarova
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Adrift : an introduction to contemporary Cuba / Lydia Chávez -- New Cuban capitalist / Juliana Barbassa -- Old Cuban cadre : four women survive Manzanillo / Alicia Roca -- Trinidad : life on the margins / Julian Foley -- Hip hop pushes the limits / Annelise Wunderlich -- Authors who knew or know the limits / Ezequiel Minaya -- Dancers who stretch the limits / Ana Campoy -- Interlude: a photo essay / Mimi Chakarova -- True believers / Olga R. Rodríguez -- Socialism and the cigar / Daniela Mohor -- Cubans log on behind Castro's back / John Cote -- New immigrants don't hate Fidel / Archana Pyati -- Spanish are back / Megan Lardner -- God, babalawos, and Castro / Bret Sigler -- Son de Camagüey / Angel González
Summary Focuses on the extensive changes that have taken place in Cuba since 1993, when Castro legalized the dollar, with essays including transformations in the economy, religious life, the literary world, ballet, and hip hop
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Interviews -- Cuba
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- Cuba.
Civilization
Economic history
Interviews
Social conditions
Landeskunde
SUBJECT Cuba -- Civilization -- 21st century
Cuba -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Cuba -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Cuba -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Pictorial works
Subject Cuba
Kuba.
Genre/Form Pictorial works
Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Chávez, Lydia, 1951- editor.
Chakarova, Mimi, editor
ISBN 9780822386483
0822386488
1283024020
9781283024020
9786613024022
6613024023