Required readings

All readings for this course will be provided on closed reserve at the Grace Doherty Library as well we for purchase in a prepared packet in the Centre College bookstore.

Cuban Special Period: Selections from Nancy Alonso, Closed for Repairs and Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s (New Directions in Latino American Cultures)

Mariel Boatlift: Read Voices of Mariel

History of the 1959 revolution: Selected readings from A Cuban Revolution Reader: A Documented History of 40 Years of the Cuban Revolution

History of the Spanish Cuban American War: Clayton, Conniff, Gauss, A New History of Modern Latin America: (pp. 230-31, 240-48). and Perez, Louis A., Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution: Chapter. 5.

Versos Sencillos (selected poems)

Soy un hombre sincero

Odio las mascaras

History of the 10 years’ War

Tributes to Karl Marx

History of José Martí in the US: Tampa, Key West and NYC: Selected readings from Gerald Poyo, Lisandro Perez and Anne Fountain.

José Martí: With All and for the Good of All (1891)

José Martí: The New Pines (1891)

José Martí: My Race (1893)

Martí, Schomburg y la cuestión racial en las Américas

José Martí: To Cuba! (1894)

José Martí: The Golden Age (1889)

José Martí: The Truth About the United States (1894)

José Martí: The Montecristi Manifesto (1895)

José Martí: Letter to Manuel Mercado (1895)

José Martí: A Vindication of Cuba

José Martí: Nuestra America