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Cuba’s Revolutionary Comics: The Caridad Blanco Collection of Historietas Cubanas

August 20, 2019

BY ADRIAN JOHNSON COMIC BOOKS, originally created as entertainment for children, were long relegated to dime-store magazine racks, children’s bookshelves, and the cheap bin at used bookstores. While sales of comics today are struggling, in recent years they have come to occupy a more important … [Read more...] about Cuba’s Revolutionary Comics: The Caridad Blanco Collection of Historietas Cubanas

Tagged With: Adrian Johnson, Benson Latin American Collection, comic books, Cuba, Cuban comic books, historietas cubanas, revolutionary comics

Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

August 27, 2018

BY MEGAN RABY At the end of 1960, near Cienfuegos, Cuba, on the Soledad estate of a US-owned sugar company, the American Director and Cuban staff of Harvard’s Atkins Institution began packing up their scientific equipment. The Cuban Revolution had caught up with them. Director Ian Duncan Clement, … [Read more...] about Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

Tagged With: Atkins Institution, Cuba, Harvard House, Jardín Botánico Cienfuegos

Politics or Fish? What the Normalization of Cuba–U.S. Relations Means for Food

March 17, 2016

BY SARA LAW My fieldwork and the last year of my master’s research occurred during a remarkable time in Cuban politics and Cuba–U.S. relations. On December 17, 2014, President Barack Obama announced a shift in policy toward normalizing relations between Cuba and the United States: Today, the … [Read more...] about Politics or Fish? What the Normalization of Cuba–U.S. Relations Means for Food

Tagged With: Cuba, Cuba opening, food politics, Obama and Cuba, Sara Law

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