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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (136): 11–35.
Published: 01 January 2020
.... Furthermore, at a transitional moment when Cuban leadership advocated institutionalization of the revolution, the Federation of Cuban Women provided highly visible opportunities for Davis to speak and be seen not afforded to men in the black liberation movement. Davis’s time in Cuba proved transformative...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (115): 115–141.
Published: 01 January 2013
... than 125,000 Cuban men and women from the port of Mariel to South
Florida, while thousands of Haitians came independently, fleeing the terror of the
Duvalier regime. The sheer number of Cubans forced local and federal bureaucra-
cies to respond quickly. On May 2, 1980, Miami prepared the Orange...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (136): 36–49.
Published: 01 January 2020
...). Seventeen years of print media was searched for gender or race references, yielding over 2,600 entries, which were then coded. This study also draws from fieldwork interviews and observations and from documents collected from several Cuban archives, including those of the Cuban Women’s Federation. 2...
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“A Cuba That Keeps Unsettling”: An Interview with Ailynn Torres Santana and Diosnara Ortega González
Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (136): 209–216.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and technology, or the benefits that accrue to women in the universalization of rights. That is true. It is also true that there is a pattern of masculine power that sees authorizing women’s agendas as part of its duties. We recall that Raúl Castro, in the closing ceremony of the last Federation of Cuban Women’s...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 121–146.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and the Origins of Welfare States . New York : Routledge . Krull Catherine Kobayashi Audrey . 2009 . “Shared Memories, Common Vision: Generations, Sociopolitical Consciousness, and Resistance among Cuban Women.” Sociological Inquiry 79 : 163 – 89 . doi:10.1111/j.1475–682X.2008.00279...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (136): 185–197.
Published: 01 January 2020
.... The FMC [Federación de Mujeres Cubanas/Federation of Cuban Women] was a huge mass organization, at one point representing 80 percent of all Cuban girls and women over the age of fourteen. Its stated goal was to mobilize women in support of the revolution and to bring women’s needs to the attention...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 7–15.
Published: 01 January 2009
... women of Fumilayo Ramsome-Kuti
(Nigeria, 1950s); and the powerful pan-African acuity of Nnamdi Azikiwe, C. L. R.
James, Aimé Césaire, and other West Indians and Africans organizing in Europe
between the 1930s and the 1950s.4 Because these authors and agitators — and the
hundreds, possibly...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (136): 217–232.
Published: 01 January 2020
... a scientific response. Even so, he cautioned that all of the denunciatory energy marshaled against gay men and women in the 1960s had led some ordinary Cubans to conclude that homosexuality was actually on the rise. That assessment—most likely erroneous, by Arce’s calculation—prompted him, too, to draw...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (129): 9–33.
Published: 01 October 2017
... is gay.”
The sexual subtext was again suggested when the singer rhymed how Cuban women,
or “dark-eyed Stellas,” would “light their fellers’ Panatelas,” or their phallic cigars.23
As this emphasis on vice tourism from the United States may suggest, Cuban
politics, economics, and social unrest...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (136): 50–74.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., family. In the 1980s, Mujeres , the magazine mouthpiece of the Federación de Mujeres Cubanas (FMC, Federation of Cuban Women), profiled men and women who put their work for the revolution above intimacy with their spouse. For example, Asela and her husband Orlando met while studying in Poland and spent...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (115): 142–168.
Published: 01 January 2013
... — the legacy of US imperialism in Cuba, the
complete rupture with the Cuban government after the Revolution, and the base’s
subsequent isolation from the surrounding community.”3 By creating the Haitian
refugee camp at Guantánamo, the United States brought one unintended effect of
its imperialism...
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Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (89): 57–91.
Published: 01 May 2004
... best left to men, according to the Cuban men coordinating the zafra. Instead,
women were scheduled to stack the cut cane for mechanized pickup later. Some
brigadistas (both men and women) did not want to question the ways of their hosts,
but others argued...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 63–76.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... It
wasn’t just voting for them simply because they were women. That isn’t to say there
wasn’t machismo. There was even machismo with the issue of gay liberation. That
has changed now, but that changed when the Cubans started changing. There was
lots of influence from them.
How did you see...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (135): 71–94.
Published: 01 October 2019
... this southeastern back-to-the-land gay liberationist history in dialogue with other such transnational LGBT+ histories focused on the Caribbean and Central America, such as those of Hobson, Lekus, and Julio Capo Jr.’s Welcome to Fairyland . The phrase “deeper south” comes from Lekus’s essay on the gay Cuban...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (135): 14–42.
Published: 01 October 2019
... a disparate series of congressional actions and presidential initiatives that responded to particular situations, such as the displaced persons crisis immediately after World War II or the Cuban Revolution of 1959. The watershed Refugee Act of 1980 articulated “a permanent and systematic procedure...
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (87): 19–48.
Published: 01 October 2003
..., an understanding of the African American experience with slave eman-
cipation informed Afro-Cuban struggles for freedom. In the years following the final
abolition of slavery on the island in 1886, Afro-Cuban journalists, both women and
men, drew on the example of African...
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (92): 62–87.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Besenia Rodriguez 2005 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2005 “De la Esclavitud Yanqui a la Libertad
Cubana”: U.S. Black Radicals, the Cuban
Revolution, and the Formation of a
Tricontinental Ideology...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 9–20.
Published: 01 May 2021
...-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Using a range of materials from podcasts to pills, the author introduces students to the globalizing forces that take the bodies of the poor, women, and Black, Latinx, trans, and global South citizens as expendable in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Copyright © 2021 by MARHO...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (138): 39–59.
Published: 01 October 2020
... the various South American military dictatorships as fascist. When the US-backed military coup overthrew Allende in 1973 and installed General Augusto Pinochet as dictator, many in the Latin American Left were quick to label the outcome. Within weeks, Cuban leader Fidel Castro denounced Pinochet as the head...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 37–45.
Published: 01 May 2017
... at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She coauthored Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression . She is the author of Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964–1973 and coeditor of Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives...
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