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Cuba Futures Series H I S T O R I C A L P E R S P E C T I V E S F U T U R A E B S U C T N E S Presented at the International Symposium E CUBRA FUTURES: PAST AND PRESENT P P March 31- April 2, 2011 A S D T A N The Cuba Project Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies The Graduate Center, CUNY EssaysOnCubanHistory.book Page ii Friday, June 17, 2011 12:09 PM C F : UBA UTURES H P ISTORICAL ERSPECTIVES Edited by M. Font Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies EssaysOnCubanHistory.book Page iii Friday, June 17, 2011 12:09 PM iii Presented at the international symposium “Cuba Futures: Past and Present,” organized by the The Cuba Project Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies The Graduate Center/CUNY, March 31–April 2, 2011 EssaysOnCubanHistory.book Page iv Friday, June 17, 2011 12:09 PM iv Chapter 1 EssaysOnCubanHistory.book Page i Friday, June 17, 2011 12:09 PM C F : UBA UTURES H P ISTORICAL ERSPECTIVES Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies www.cubasymposium.org www.bildner.org EssaysOnCubanHistory.book Page iii Friday, June 17, 2011 12:09 PM Table of Contents Preface v The Early Cuban Republic 1 Democracy in Cuba Principles and Practice, 1902-1952 Mary Speck 1 2 Cuban Corporatism: Batista’s Three-Year Plan and a Nation Betrayedt Brenden M. Carbonell 29 3 An Anarchist Crucible: International Anarchist Migrants and Their Cuban Experiences, 1900-1915 Kirwin R. Shaffer 53 The 1950s and Revolution 4 Sugar and Revolution, 1952-2002 Luis Martínez-Fernández 75 5 From Fighting Batista to Defending the Revolution: Mobilization and Popular Support for Revolutionary Change, 1952–1961 Albert Manke 101 6 El Derecho de Nacer: Legitimidad, historia y literatura en Cuba (1952-1976) Rafael Rojas 129 7 Young People, Youth Organisations and Mass Participation, 1952-1962 Anne Luke 153 iii EssaysOnCubanHistory.book Page iv Friday, June 17, 2011 12:09 PM iv 8 La encrucijada histórica de los años 50 en Cuba: Revolución o Reforma Jorge Renato Ibarra Guitart 175 9 ¿Sujetos olvidados? Trabajadores, historiografía y revolución en Cuba Ricardo Quiza 189 10 Meeting the Neighbors: Fidel Castro’s April 1959 Trip to the United States Matt Jacobs 215 Nineteenth-Century Cuba 11 Cuba’s Attempts at Democracy: The Colony Roger Betancourt 239 12 The War of 1868 and the Growth of Cuban New York Lisandro Pérez 261 13 The Hernández Family: Migration, Cubanidad, and Transnational Identities Evelyn Powell Jennings 277 EssaysOnCubanHistory.book Page v Friday, June 17, 2011 12:09 PM Preface The dynamics of contemporary Cuba—the politics, culture, economy, and the people—were the focus of the three-day international symposium, Cuba Futures: Past and Present (organized by the Bildner Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY). As one of the largest and most dynamic conferences on Cuba to date, the Cuba Futures symposium drew the attention of specialists from all parts of the world. Nearly 600 individuals attended the 57 panels and plenary sessions over the course of three days. Over 240 panelists from the US, Cuba, Britain, Spain, Germany, France, Canada, and other countries combined perspectives from various fields including social sciences, economics, arts and humanities. They provided in- depth treatment of a wide range of topics, including US-Cuba relations, healthcare, the history and legacy of the Cuban revolution, the increasingly complex Cuban diasporas, cinema, music, literature, and cultural institutions, the visual and performing arts, religion, the role of intellectuals, urban spaces, civil society, democracy, the impact of the Internet and technology, social development, non-governmental organizations, Afro-Cuban cultural movements, gender and sexuality, tourism, and race and ethnicity. The con- ference also discussed Cuba's links to the rest of the world. The conference was organized by Bildner Center director Mauricio A. Font and the Cuba Futures organizing committee, consisting of a growing number of Cuba specialists at the City University of New York, with support from the Bildner Center staff. Since 1997, The Cuba Project has been orga- nizing related conferences creating a space for sustained dialogue on con- temporary issues of Cuban society. The papers in this volume were presented during the Cuba Futures conference and focus on Cuban history. v EssaysOnCubanHistory.book Page vi Friday, June 17, 2011 12:09 PM vi EssaysOnCubanHistory.book Page 1 Friday, June 17, 2011 12:09 PM Democracy in Cuba: 1 Principles and Practice, 1902–1952 By Mary Speck Cubans and Cuba scholars (like their U.S. counterparts) tend to stress the island nation’s exceptionalism. Before 1898, Cuba was exceptional as “la isla siempre fiel,” one of only two Spanish colonies in the Ameri- cas (along with Puerto Rico), that did not win independence in the early 19th century. It was exceptional again after it finally broke away from Spain in 1898 only to the humiliating status of US protectorate under the Platt Amendment. Cuba became even more exceptional after 1959, when Fidel Castro succeeded in transforming the island into the only communist state in the Western Hemisphere. This thrust Cuba into the center of the Cold War, spawning a profusion of books and articles on the origins and evolution of the Cuban revolution.1 The rarity of work—especially comparative work—on the Cuban Republic contrasts starkly with the abundance of scholarship on the Cuban revolution. Few historians and political scientists have both- 1. I would like to thank the National Endowment for Democracy where I conducted research for this paper as a visiting fellow. 1
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