The Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Cultures of the Special Period
• 1. Revolution and Rumba: Cuba in the Special Period
• 2. Alice in Wondertown: Interview with Filmmaker Daniel Diaz Torres
• 3. Magin: Feminist Organizing in Cuba
• 4. Vitality in Precarious Conditions: Conversation with Artist/Art Critic Tonel
• 5. Public Art and Art Collectives in Havana
• 6. New Cuban Cinema: Race and Sexuality
• 7. The Capital of Rap: Hip Hop Culture in Alamar
• 8. Cultural Cimarronaje: Afro-Cuban Visual Arts
• 9. Elio Rodriguez: Of Joint Ventures and Sexual Adventures
• Part II. Normalization: Netflix Meets the Weekly Packet
• 10. Cuban Rap: Where the Streets Meet Highbrow Art
• 11. Why USAID Could Never Spark a Hip Hop Revolution in Cuba
• 12. Stories that Resonate: New Cultures of Documentary Filmmaking in Cuba (With Alexandra Hakin)
• 13. What Do Cubans Think of Normalization with the United States?
• 14. The Repeating Barrio
• 15. In Cuba, Will the Revolution Be Digitized?
• 16. Afro-Cuban Activists Fight Racism between Two Fires
• 17. Black Diasporic Dialogues in Post-Soviet Cuba
• 18. The Many Shades of Fidel Castro
• Part III. Cuban Futures and the Trump Era
• 19. The Cold War Politics of Donald Trump
• 20. Hairdressers of the World, Unite! (You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Locks . . . and a Community to Win)
• 21. How Socially Engaged Activism Is Transforming Cuba
• 22. A Ship Adrift: Cuba after the Pink Tide
• Epilogue
• Index