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Contributors Carlos Alzugaray Treto is professor at the University of Havana, where he teaches political science and international relations. From 1961 to 1996, he was a member of the Cuban Foreign Service, serving abroad in a number of postings , including ambassador to the European Union. He has been a visiting professor at universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Italy, and Spain and, from 1996 to 2007, a professor at the Higher Institute of International Relations in Havana. He has written three books and more than sixty articles. Max Azicri (1934–2011) was professor of political science at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. He specialized in Latin American politics and comparative politics; he was the author of two books and the co-editor of a third. In numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs, published in twelve countries over almost half a century, he examined the Cuban American community and Cuban issues—politics, the legal system, society, the women’s movement, economics, culture, international relations. At the moment of his untimely death, he was working on a book-length study of the Cuba-Venezuela alliance and its continental impact. Mette Louise Berg is lecturer at the University of Oxford. An anthropologist, she has studied Cuba and its diaspora since the late 1990s and is the author of Generating Diaspora: Memory, Politics, and Nation among Cubans in Spain. She is currently conducting new research on education, social mobility, elite reproduction, and transnational networks in socialist Cuba and its diaspora. María Caridad Cumaná, until recently adjunct professor in art history at Havana University, is a film critic, programmer, and jury member at national and international film festivals. Now living in Florida, she writes on Cuban and Latin American cinema and has collaborated on two encyclopedias: one on cinema in Spain and the other on Cuba in the United States. In 2008 she won the AVINA Foundation prize for research journalism for a multimedia project on Latin American and Caribbean cinema. She participated as well in the National Film Board of Canada project Out My Window. Contributors 320 Kevin M. Delgado is an ethnomusicologist and associate professor of music at San Diego State University. His research focuses on the music, history, and cultural representation of the Afro-Cuban Santeria religion. His essays have appeared in Black Music Research Journal, Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s, Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, and A Contracorriente. Karen Dubinsky teaches in the departments of Global Development Studies and History at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont. She is the author of Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration in the Americas, which addresses child migration and adoption conflicts in Cuba, Guatemala, and Canada. She is currently working on two projects: an anthology entitled Habaname: The Musical City of Carlos Varela and a book titled How Babies Rule the World: The Iconography and Ideology of the Poster Child. Susan Eckstein is professor of international relations and sociology at Boston University. Her publications include How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands (ed.); The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the U.S. and Their Homeland; Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro; The Poverty of Revolution: The State and Urban Poor in Mexico; Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements (ed.); What Justice? Whose Justice: Fighting for Fairness in Latin America (co-ed.); and Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America (coed .). She is a former president of the Latin American Studies Association. Efe Can Gürcan is a PhD student in sociology at Simon Fraser University and holds a SSHRC–Joseph–Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship. His research interests lie in the areas of political sociology, Latin American politics and society, food studies, development theories, and Turkish politics and society . His recent and upcoming publications include a review essay on food sovereignty in the journal Kasarinlan, an article on Cuban agrarian movements in Latin American Perspectives, an article on regionalism in Journal of Social Research and Policy, and several book chapters on, respectively, regionalism, and Cuba, Turkey, and Gramsci. John D. Holst is associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Administration at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, where he teaches graduate courses in critical pedagogy, social theory, and educational research. He is the author of the book Social Movements, Civil Society, and Radical Adult Education. Along with Stephen Brookfield, he is the co-author of the book Radicalizing Learning: Adult Education for a Just World, which [52.14.8.34] Project MUSE (2024...

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