In the News: US–Cuba Relations in 2009

Week of May 11, 2009

News Item: The Obama administration recently announced that it is revising its policies on family travel to Cuba, remittances to family members, and regulations on gift parcels. According to a White House fact sheet, these changes are being made in order to “help bridge the gap among divided Cuban families and promote the freer flow of information and humanitarian items to the Cuban people.”

Adrift: The Cuban Raft People
By Alfredo Fernández. Arte Publico Press, 2000
Call Number: E184 .C97 F46 2000

Castro: Man and Myth (DVD)
Directed by Stephan Lamby and Volker Skierka. Distributed by The Cinema Guild, 2005
Call Number: F1788.22 .C3 C35 2005 (Media Center)

Cuba After Communism
By Eliana Cardoso and Ann Helwege. MIT Press, 1992
Call Number: F1788 .C2575 1992

Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
By Louis A. Pérez, Jr. University of North Carolina Press, 2006
Call Number: E183.8 C9 P4653 2008

Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion (DVD)
Directed by Glenn Gebhard. The Cinema Guild, 2008
Call Number: F1788 .C73 2008 (Media Center)

Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation
By Román de la Campa. Verso, 2000
Call Number: E184 .C97 D4 2000

The Cuba Project: CIA Covert Operations, 1959-62
By Fabián Escalante. Ocean Press, 2004
Call Number: E183.8 .C9 E8313 2004

The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution
By Daniel P. Erikson. Bloomsbury Press, 2008
Call Number: F1788 .E65 2008

The Cuban Exile Movement: Dissidents or Mercenaries?
By Hernando Calvo and Katlijn Declercq. Ocean Press, 2000
Call Number: F1788. C246 2000

Cuban Socialism in a New Century: Adversity, Survival, and Renewal
Edited by Max Azicri and Elsie Deal. University Press of Florida, 2004
Call Number: HX158.5 C.85 2004

The Declarations of Havana
By Fidel Castro. Verso, 2008
Call Number: F1788.22 .C3 A5 2008

Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro’s Cuba
By Juan L. López. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
Call Number: JL1010 .L67 2002

Entrevistas Cubanas: Historias de una Nación Divida
By Felipe Arocena. McFarland & Co., 2004
Call Number: F1788 .A796 2004

Fidel (DVD)
Directed by Estela Bravo. Mongrel Media, 2001
Call Number: F1788.22 .C3 F523 2001 (Media Center)

The Long Dark Night of Dark Intent: A Half Century of Cuban Communism
By Irving Louis Horowitz. Transaction Publishers, 2008
Call Number: F1788 .H573 2008

I am Cuba (DVD)
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozishvili. New Yorker Video, 2007
Call Number: PN1997 .I258 2007 (Media Center)

On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture
By Louis A. Pérez, Jr. University of North Carolina Press, 1999
Call Number: F1760 .P47 1999

The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
By Samuel Farber. University of North Carolina Press, 2006
Call Number: F1788 .F328 2006

The Truth about Fidel Castro: Revolution
By Mary Dodge. Northeastern UP, 2003
Call Number: F1788 .T78 2002

U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War
By Michael Grow. University Press of Kansas, 2008
Call Number: F1418 .G83 2008

Waiting for Fidel (DVD)
Directed by Michael Rubbo. Facets Video, 2004
Call Number: F1765.2 W35 2004 (Media Center)

The War that Never Was: An Insider’s Account of CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba
By Bradley Earl Ayers. Bobbs-Merrill, 1976
Call Number: F1788 .A88

Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left
By Van Gosse. Verso, 1993
Call Number: HN90 .R3 G67 1993

Women of Latin America. Cuba: The Children of Fidel (DVD)
Directed by Carmen Sarmiento. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004
Call Number: HQ1460.5 .W63225 2004 (Media Center)

Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
By Rodrigo Lazo. University of North Carolina Press, 2005
Call Number: E184 .C97 L39 2005

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