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Cuba: A Reading List

We’ve curated a selection of our books on the history and culture of Cuba, from early colonial years to the 1959 Revolution to daily life today, for those wanting to learn more about the island nation.

Havana Hardball

Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and The Cuban League

César Brioso

Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away

Memories of Early Cuban Exiles

David Powell

Modern Art in 1940s Cuba

Havana's Artists, Critics, and Exhibitions

Alejandro Anreus

Seagull One

The Amazing True Story of Brothers to the Rescue

Lily Prellezo, José Basulto

Operation Pedro Pan, Revised Edition

The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children

Yvonne M. Conde

Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children

Deborah Shnookal

The Mariel Boatlift

A Cuban-American Journey

Victor Andres Triay

Voices from Mariel

Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift

José Manuel García

The Cuban Sandwich

A History in Layers

Andrew T. Huse, Bárbara C. Cruz, Jeff Houck

Modern Cuban

A Contemporary Approach to Classic Recipes

Ana Quincoces, Gloria Estefan

Fleeing Castro

Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program

Victor Andres Triay

Bay of Pigs

An Oral History of Brigade 2506

Victor Andres Triay

Cuban Revelations

Behind the Scenes in Havana

Marc Frank

Revolutionary Cuba

A History

Luis Martínez-Fernández

In the Vortex of the Cyclone

Selected Poems

Excilia Saldaña, Flora González-Mandri, Rosamond Rosenmeier

Portraits of Cuba

Daniel Duncan, Marcela Vásquez-León, Dereka Rushbrook

Picturing Cuba

Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora

Jorge Duany

Embracing Cuba

Byron Motley

Handmade in Cuba

Rolando Estévez and the Beautiful Books of Ediciones Vigía

Ruth Behar, Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, Kristin Schwain

Cuba

A History in Art

Gary R. Libby, Juan A. Mártinez

Delivering Cuba Through the Mail

Cuba’s Presence in Non-Cuban Postage Stamps and Envelopes

Emilio Cueto

Cuba on the Labels

A Selection of Cuba-Themed Cigar Labels Printed Outside of Cuba

Emilio Cueto

Inspired by Cuba

A Survey of Cuba-themed Ceramics

Emilio Cueto, Julio Larramendi

Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves

Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns

Frances Peace Sullivan

The Cuban Revolution and the New Left

Transnational Histories of Gender, Sexuality, and Family

Michelle Chase, Isabella Cosse

Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Raquel Alicia Otheguy

Democracy and Time in Cuban Thought

The Elusive Present

María de los Ángeles Torres

Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art

The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking

Christina M. García

Cuba and Puerto Rico

Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture

Carmen Haydée Rivera, Jorge Duany

Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela

One Hope, Two Realities

Silvia Pedraza, Carlos A. Romero

Cuban Cultural Heritage

A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation

Pablo Alonso González

The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas

Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum

Sandro R. Barros, Rafael Ocasio, Angela L. Willis

Staging Discomfort

Performance and Queerness in Contemporary Cuba

Bretton White

Cuba’s Digital Revolution

Citizen Innovation and State Policy

Ted A. Henken, Sara Garcia Santamaria

Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba

Takkara K. Brunson

Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santería

Speaking a Sacred World

Kristina Wirtz

Afro-Cuban Voices

On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba

Pedro Pérez Sarduy, Jean Stubbs

The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution

Anna Clayfield

Wage-Earning Slaves

Coartación in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Claudia Varella, Manuel Barcia

Key to the New World

A History of Early Colonial Cuba

Luis Martínez-Fernández

Indigenous Passages to Cuba, 1515-1900

Jason M. Yaremko

The Cubalogues

Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana

Todd F. Tietchen

Exile and Revolution

José D. Poyo, Key West, and Cuban Independence

Gerald E. Poyo

Circulating Culture

Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange

Jennifer Cearns

University Press of Florida
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