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Figures 0.1. The author with her children 12 1.1. Cubans wait in line to enter a dollar store 24 1.2. Poster advertising the socialist revolution hangs in a car showroom 30 1.3. Schoolchildren buy snacks in Old Havana 33 I.1. Uso particular: a “private use” vehicle 36 2.1. José Martí towers over Plaza de la Revolución 40 4.1. An empty shop window touting “Offers in National Currency” 73 4.2. Vintage American car rolls by 77 6.1. Full circle: the logic of Afro-Cuban poverty in late-socialist Cuba 111 7.1. Havana at twilight, looking toward the Florida Straits 117 9.1. Types of citizen-state relationships 163 9.2. A Havana primary school pays homage to Fidel 179 ...

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