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Airplane hijacking to Cuba
American expatriates in Cuba
American students and Fidel Castro
Antonio Maceo Brigade
Areito
Assata Shakur
Author_Teishan A. Latner
Black Panther Party in Cuba
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Cuba and 1960s protest movements
Cuba and Africa
Cuba and African American freedom struggle
Cuba and American left
Cuba and Vietnam War
Cuban American politics
Cuban foreign policy
Cuban health and education
Cuban Institute for Friendship among the People (ICAP)
Cuban Revolution
Dialogueros
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cuba
Global New Left
Organization in Solidarity with the
Socialism and communism
Third World revolution
Tricontinental Conference
U.S. political exiles in Cuba
U.S.-Cuba relations
Venceremos Brigade
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- ISBN 9781469659206
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2020
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Cuba's grassroots revolution prevailed on America's doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left even as it provoked a backlash from the U.S. political establishment. In this groundbreaking book, historian Teishan A. Latner contends that in the era of decolonization, the Vietnam War, and Black Power, socialist Cuba claimed center stage for a generation of Americans who looked to the insurgent Third World for inspiration and political theory. As Americans studied the island's achievements in education, health care, and economic redistribution, Cubans in turn looked to U.S. leftists as collaborators in the global battle against inequality and allies in the nation's Cold War struggle with Washington. By forging ties with organizations such as the Venceremos Brigade, the Black Panther Party, and the Cuban American students of the Antonio Maceo Brigade, and by providing political asylum to activists such as Assata Shakur, Cuba became a durable global influence on the U.S. Left.
Drawing from extensive archival and oral history research and declassified FBI and CIA documents, this is the first multidecade examination of the encounter between the Cuban Revolution and the U.S. Left after 1959. By analyzing Cuba's multifaceted impact on American radicalism, Latner contributes to a growing body of scholarship that has globalized the study of U.S. social justice movements.
Drawing from extensive archival and oral history research and declassified FBI and CIA documents, this is the first multidecade examination of the encounter between the Cuban Revolution and the U.S. Left after 1959. By analyzing Cuba's multifaceted impact on American radicalism, Latner contributes to a growing body of scholarship that has globalized the study of U.S. social justice movements.
Teishan A. Latner is assistant professor of history at Thomas Jefferson University.
