Pre-Departure Readings and Media
Please take a look at these readings and the following films before you arrive in Cuba. They will prepare you well for what you will be seeing and help you process the experience better.
Also, don't forget to watch these films available online:
- Conducta directed by Ernesto Daranas Serrano (2014) (Please download both files, the film and the English subtitles)
- Model Town directed by Laimir Fano Villaescusa (2007)
A Contemporary Cuba Reader: The Revolution under Raúl Castro (Ed. Philip Brenner, Marguerite Rose Jiménez , John M. Kirk, and William M. LeoGrande)
A Contemporary Cuba Reader: The Revolution under Raúl Castro (Ed. Philip Brenner, Marguerite Rose Jiménez , John M. Kirk, and William M. LeoGrande)
- History as Prologue: Cuba before 2006, (Philip Brenner, Marguerite Rose Jiménez , John M. Kirk, and William M. LeoGrande)
- Cuban Educational Reform during the "Special Period": Dust, Ashes, and Diamonds (Denise Blum)
- Continuity and Change in Cuba at Fifty: The Revolution at a Crossroads (Carlos Alzugaray Treto)
- Cuban Youth: From the "Special Period" to the"Updating" of the Economic and Social Model (María Isabel Domínguez)
- Questioning Authority: Cuban Expression of Contemporary Cuban Youth (Ana M. Ruiz Aguirre)
Cuba Beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana (Karen Dubinsky)
Cuba Beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana (Karen Dubinsky)
Cities of Imagination: Havana, a Cultural and Literary Companion (Claudia Lightfoot)
Cities of Imagination: Havana, a Cultural and Literary Companion (Claudia Lightfoot)
Cuba in the Shadow of Change: Daily Life in the Twlight of the Revolution (Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb)
Cuba in the Shadow of Change: Daily Life in the Twlight of the Revolution (Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb)
Havana: Beyond the Ruins
Havana: Beyond the Ruins
News Items
News Items
Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied U.S., Dies at 90 (Antony DePalma)
The Obamas and the Blacks of Cuba: Some Questions of Power, Agency, and Repression (Odette Casamayor)