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Understanding overlooked dimensions of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the global left in the 1960s and beyond This volume reconsiders revolutionary Cuba’s global influence by shifting the focus from high-level political leaders to perspectives traditionally sidelined, offering new insights into how everyday lives, family dynamics, and notions of gender and sexuality impacted revolutionary transformation. Its expansive scope uncovers ties between Cuba and Latin America, the United States, Africa, and Asia, examining the interplay of global forces including new models of mass consumption, feminist and LGBTQ movements, and national liberation struggles. Chapters include analyses of Chinese reinterpretations of a Cuban play, Angela Davis’s influential visits to the island, Cuba’s complex relations with Black militants in Angola, and a Mexican transgender and disability activist who reimagined Che Guevara’s legacy. They also present research on Cuba’s solidarity campaigns with Vietnam, foreign journalists who covered the revolution, the role of consumption and fashion, and the lasting impact of the revolution’s refugee policies on exiled children and families from the Southern Cone. Through its interdisciplinary sociocultural approach, this volume challenges conventional top-down narratives by foregrounding the interplay between grassroots actors and transnational affairs. It is an essential resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in the multilayered stages of the Cuban Revolution and its continued relationship with global politics and culture. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Contributors: Tanya Harmer Emily Snyder Felipe Cesar Camilo Caro Romero Ailynn Torres Santana Robert Franco Michelle Chase Isabella Cosse Siwei Wang Ximena Espeche Sarah J. Seidman Rafael Cesar Alexis Baldacci

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Author:   Michelle Chase ,  Isabella Cosse
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
Imprint:   University Press of Florida
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
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9781683405566

ISBN 10:   1683405560
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   20 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

vii List of Figuresix Acknowledgments 1 INTRODUCTION The Island and the World: Rethinking the Cuban Revolution Through Transnational and Sociocultural Histories Michelle Chase and Isabella Cosse REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN 17 ONE “The Voice of the Skin”: Racial Politics in Cuban-Angolan Cooperation, 1965–1967 Rafael Cesar 44 TWO The Heroic Example of the Vietnamese Woman: Gender and Solidarity in Cuba’s Age of the Tricontinental Michelle Chase 67 THREE Angela Davis in Cuba as Symbol and Subject, 1960–1970s Sarah J. Seidman SEXUALITY 93 FOUR The Orphans of the Sierra Maestra: Cuba and the Homosexual Movements in Latin America, 1960–1990 Felipe Caro Romero 117 FIVE Transgressing Che: Irina Layevska Echeverría Gaitán, Disability Politics, and Transgendering the New Man in Mexico, 1964–2001 Robert Franco GENDER, MEDIA, AND CULTURE 141 SIX Cuba, 1959: Revolutionary Attraction and Journalism Ximena Espeche 163 SEVEN Revolutionary Roses on the Cane Field: Staging Cuban Women in Socialist China, 1960–1965 Siwei Wang FAMILY, CHILDHOOD, AND DAILY LIFE 187 EIGHT The Paradoxes of Paradise: Memories of Exile and Family Life in Revolutionary Cuba, 1972–1990 Tanya Harmer 212 NINE Between Two Empires: Youth, Identity, and Consumption in 1970s and 1980s Cuba Alexis Baldacci 234 TEN “We Were Like a Bomb”: Child Refugees, Cuban Politics, and Argentine Revolutionary Organizations, 1970–2020 Isabella Cosse 256 ELEVEN Internationalizing the Revolutionary Family: Love and Politics in Cuba and Nicaragua, 1979–1990 Emily Snyder 279 Afterword Ailynn Torres Santana 287 List of Contributors 291 Index

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Michelle Chase, associate professor of history at Pace University, is the author of Revolution within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952–1962. Isabella Cosse, professor of history at Universidad Nacional de San Martín and researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), is the author of Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic.

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