San Antonio College Library

Cuba: Worlds Together provides a basic view of the culture of this island including topography, history, religion, cuisine, and education.

A collection of linked tales set in Miami and Havana.

Old Rosa is composed of two stories that converge on a single charged point in the lives of a Cuban mother and son. In the first, the mother finds her son in bed with another boy; in the second, the son is imprisoned in one of Castro?s camps for homosexuals --

A journey into realm of Afro-Cuban culture, this program explores the world of artist Salvador Gonzalez, a charismatic visionary who has single-handedly transformed a Havana alley into a world-renowned outdoor art and performance space. Salvador's outdoor murals encompass the doorways, windows, and walls of two full blocks of Central Havana known as Callejon de Hamel (Hamel's Alley), now the center of a musical and artistic renaissance of Yoruba culture,...

Centers on the extended visit of Helen Wentworth, a New England teacher, to a childhood friend's plantation, where she witnesses African slaves' arrivals and their sale and gross mistreatment at the hands of coffee and sugar planters. Juanita is a beautiful mulatta slave with whom the plantation owner's son falls in love. Extending the tradition of Gothic fiction in the Americas, Mann's novel raises questions about the relation of slavery in the Caribbean...

Granted unprecedented access to this ethereal and enigmatic island, award-winning photographer David Alan Harvey presents more than a year of his fieldwork in this lavish and insightful, modern-day portrait of Cuba.

"Much of today's most exuberant, most creative and most telling imagery can be found in the street. All over the world, the street has become a public art gallery of visual icons, each city with permanent collections and temporary exhibits, each country with its own much-loved identity." "Cuba has a unique place in these international street galleries. Its colonial past and its revolution, invoked everywhere in utopian images, have created something...

Cuba continues to loom large in U.S. consciousness and politics. Luis, of Cuban descent, provides detailed, clear insight into religion, customs, economy, media, performing arts and creative arts, and cinema. Presented in the context of three interrelated periods in Cuban history - the Colonial, the Republic, and Castro's Revolution - this book explores Cuba's dynamic culture. The contributions of Cubans in exile are included as well. This much-needed...