The history of Latin America and the Caribbean was irreversibly altered by the arrival of the conquistadors, destruction of native civilizations and implementation of colonialism for hundreds of years. However, Spain also introduced the high culture of the baroque to Latin America and the Caribbean, which mixed with the cultures of native and African peoples, creating new, distinct forms of literary expression. Subsequent post-colonial cultural movements attempted to explore and reaffirm the variety of cultures that shaped both regions, including the movement of Afrocubanismo in Cuba, which occurred from 1910-1940. Afrocubanismo was a movement intended to incorporate African folklore and music into traditional modes of art. While many authors and artists were instrumental to Afrocubanismo, Nicolás Guillén is considered to be the most influential author of the movement, due to his new and inventive style of poetry that incorporated both Spanish and African influences. This study will demonstrate how Guillén’s use of traditional poetic forms, the son and portrayal of everyday Afro-Cuban life reveal his vision for a post-colonial, transcultured Cuban society, rather than a Cuba subject to colonialism and acculturation.

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A young woman disconnected from her roots tries to save her family’s cigar factory from a greedy developer planning to gentrify their Latin neighborhood.

Miami's "Little Havana" is known by many for its famous Southwest 8th Street, the Calle Ocho festival, and for the many Latin people, particularly Cubans, that live in the area. However, the current name of the neighborhood hides all of the dynamics of neighborhood change and creates the notion that Little Havana is a static monoculture neighborhood. This study measured people's perception of Little Havana by surveying 153 residents to identify the cultural associations and to capture the participant's spatial perceptions of Little Havana. This study found that survey participants from inside the study area associated Little Havana more with Cuban culture and had more positive things to say about the neighborhood. Finally, this study suggests that the core of Little Havana was encompassed by West Flagler Street on the north, Southwest 8th Street on the south, Southwest 27th Avenue on the west, and Southwest 4th Avenue on the east. / by Hilton Cordoba. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Neste trabalho analisamos a história do Instituto Cubano del Arte e Indústria Cinematográficos, primeiro organismo cultural criado após a Revolução cubana, e seu papel na política cultural, entre 1959 e 1991. Por meio da análise de documentos da política cultural, da revista Cine Cubano, além de depoimentos, críticas e alguns filmes que repercutiram especialmente os dilemas e questionamentos dos intelectuais cubanos, abordamos as tensões entre a política cultural oficial, o ICAIC e os projetos dos cineastas. Esse Instituto, pelo qual circularam muitos cineastas latino-americanos e europeus, foi palco de debates, disputas políticas e diversas polêmicas envolvendo filmes e tendências estéticas, como o realismo socialista e a nouvelle vague. Nossa tese é de que o ICAIC, pode ser considerado uma instituição privilegiada no meio cultural cubano, pois consolidou uma autonomia relativa em relação aos mecanismos de controle governamentais, por meio da ação dos cineastas e da mediação da direção do Instituto. Esta autonomia foi abalada, em diversos momentos, em função de fatores como a reestruturação do Estado, os fracassos econômicos e o acirramento do autoritarismo em Cuba, principalmente a partir dos anos 70. Ainda assim, o Instituto se readaptou às demandas políticas governamentais num jogo político de adesão e resistência à política cultural oficial, que tornou possível a produção de vários filmes ambíguos e críticos ao regime, ao longo desse período. / This work analyzes the history of the Cuban Institute for Art and Film Production (ICAIC) ? the first cultural organization created after the Cuban Revolution ? and its role in cultural policy between 1959 and 1991. Through the analysis of documents on cultural policy, the magazine Cine Cubano, in addition to testimonies, critiques and a set of films specifically relevant to the issues and dilemmas of Cuban intellectuals, the thesis delves into the tensions between official cultural policy, the ICAIC, and film makers? projects. Various Latin American and European film makers were involved with the institute, and it served as a forum for debate, political discussions and varied polemics related to film and aesthetic tendencies, including Socialist Realism and New Wave. The thesis proposes that ICAIC constituted a privileged institution in the Cuban cultural environment because ? through the action of film makers and the mediation of the Institute?s leadership ? it attained relative autonomy with respect to mechanisms of government control. This autonomy was unsettled, at different points, by factors such as state restructuring, economic failure and the entrenchment of authoritarianism in Cuba, especially from the 1970s onward. Still, the institute adapted to the demands of government policy through a political dynamic that alternated adhesion and resistance to official cultural policy, making possible the production of various films that were ambiguous and critical of the regime during that period.

Variation in Cuban Spanish Abstract The aim of this thesis is to deal with the topic of variation in Cuban Spanish, with a special emphasis on the Havana variety, one of the most innovative and recognizable within the island's linguistic landscape. The work is divided into three sections: phonetics and phonology, lexis and semantics, morphology and syntax. The cases described are illustrated with entries taken from a lexico- graphical work of personal authorship, or likewise with usage examples mainly taken from the Reference Corpus of Contemporary Spanish (CREA). On the basis of the analysis of the collected data, this paper examines the state of variability and balance inherent to the system, in order to deepen in the understanding of the mechanisms that shape this language variety. Keywords: Spanish language, Cuban Spanish, variation, dictionary of Cuban Spanish Variación lingüística en el español de Cuba Resumen El objetivo de la presente tesis es abordar el tema de la variación en el español hablado en Cuba, con especial énfasis en la modalidad de La Habana, una de las más innovadoras y representa- tivas del panorama lingüístico insular. El trabajo se halla dividido en tres grandes bloques: fonética y fonología, léxico y semántica, morfología y sintaxis. Los casos descritos se hallan ilustrados con...

This thesis examines the lives of Cuban refugees who entered Atlanta, Georgia between 1950 and 1980. It explores early trans-national ties between the two areas. and how Cuban refugees relied on this relationship when they left the island. It shows the process they went through from finding aid and shelter to becoming a strong active community. It explains the role religious institutions had in settling refugees and shows how the state had to work to become equipped to provide resources to a large influx of Spanish-speakers. Through this thesis one will learn of the beginnings of an important Latino community in Atlanta and how its formation prepared the city for larger immigrant groups that would arrive later.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-07-24Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:57:42Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 morrone_p_me_mar.pdf: 511209 bytes, checksum: bdbd295a6628155bd53961c752aeed05 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a atuação dos cubano-americanos organizados sob a Fundação Nacional Cubano Americana (FNCA) na política externa dos Estados Unidos para Cuba. Para tanto, abordamos o processo migratório cubano para os Estados Unidos, com ênfase no período posterior à Revolução Cubana, quando essa emigração passa a ser concebida como base social da contra-revolução e promovida pelo governo norte-americano. Nessa direção, apresentamos o tratamento particular oferecido a essa emigração pela administração Ronald Reagan, que estimulou a formação da FNCA como uma organização política contrarevolucionária capaz de pressionar o Congresso em temas cubanos, e a inserção dos cubanos organizados sob esta instituição na vida doméstica do país, sinalizada por seus votos e por suas contribuições financeiras às campanhas eleitorais. Por fim, analisamos os atuais objetivos da FNCA, traduzidos na promoção de uma transição política em Cuba para a democracia e favorecidos pela administração George W. Bush, que financia e apóia programas para esse fim. / This dissertation has as objective to analyse the cuban-americans’ role, organized under the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), in the United States’ foreign policy towards Cuba. For this purpose, we analyzed the cuban migration process directed to the United States, emphasizing the post Revolution period, when this emigration is conceived as the social basis of the counter-revolution and promoted by the U.S. government. In this direction, we presented the particular treatment offered to this emigration by the Reagan administration, which stimulated the CANF creation as a counter-revolutionary political organization capable of pressing the Congress in cuban themes, and the insertion of the cubans organized under this institution in the domestic affairs of the country through their votes and financial contributions. Finally, we analyzed the actual objectives of CANF, translated in the promotion of a political transition in Cuba for democracy and favored by Bush’s administration, which finances and supports programs towards this end.

Orientador: Luís Fernando Ayerbe / Banca: Héctor Saint-Pierre / Banca: Harry E. Vanden / O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais é instituído em parceria com a Unesp/Unicamp/PUC-SP, em projeto subsidiado pela CAPES, intitulado "Programa San Tiago Dantas" / Resumo: Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a atuação dos cubano-americanos organizados sob a Fundação Nacional Cubano Americana (FNCA) na política externa dos Estados Unidos para Cuba. Para tanto, abordamos o processo migratório cubano para os Estados Unidos, com ênfase no período posterior à Revolução Cubana, quando essa emigração passa a ser concebida como base social da contra-revolução e promovida pelo governo norte-americano. Nessa direção, apresentamos o tratamento particular oferecido a essa emigração pela administração Ronald Reagan, que estimulou a formação da FNCA como uma organização política contrarevolucionária capaz de pressionar o Congresso em temas cubanos, e a inserção dos cubanos organizados sob esta instituição na vida doméstica do país, sinalizada por seus votos e por suas contribuições financeiras às campanhas eleitorais. Por fim, analisamos os atuais objetivos da FNCA, traduzidos na promoção de uma transição política em Cuba para a democracia e favorecidos pela administração George W. Bush, que financia e apóia programas para esse fim. / Abstract: This dissertation has as objective to analyse the cuban-americans' role, organized under the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), in the United States' foreign policy towards Cuba. For this purpose, we analyzed the cuban migration process directed to the United States, emphasizing the post Revolution period, when this emigration is conceived as the social basis of the counter-revolution and promoted by the U.S. government. In this direction, we presented the particular treatment offered to this emigration by the Reagan administration, which stimulated the CANF creation as a counter-revolutionary political organization capable of pressing the Congress in cuban themes, and the insertion of the cubans organized under this institution in the domestic affairs of the country through their votes and financial contributions. Finally, we analyzed the actual objectives of CANF, translated in the promotion of a political transition in Cuba for democracy and favored by Bush's administration, which finances and supports programs towards this end. / Mestre