{"id":47,"date":"2019-11-18T23:28:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/?p=47"},"modified":"2019-11-18T23:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:28:26","slug":"video-project-revolutionary-cuba-a-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/2019\/11\/18\/video-project-revolutionary-cuba-a-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Project: Revolutionary Cuba – A History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revolutionary Cuba: A History<\/span><\/i> is a comprehensive book detailing the prolonged revolution Cuba experienced under Castro. Chapters 2 and 3 explain what happened in the first decade of the revolution, the timeline our video project will focus on. Mart\u00ednez-Fern\u00e1ndez argues what Dawson argues: that the revolution in Cuba was a process, a movement, rather than a single military and political event that consisted of a militia group overtaking a government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mart\u00ednez-Fern\u00e1ndez outlines the most important aspects of the Cuban Revolution. He mentions the popular nature of Castro\u2019s leadership, a revolutionary movement endorsed by the people. He also follows the island\u2019s increasing transition to socialism and communism, especially while under the pressure of foreign relations tensions with both the United States and the Soviet Union. The sugar economy is a consistent theme within the book as well. Mart\u00ednez-Fern\u00e1ndez examines both the negative and positive outcomes of Cuba\u2019s first decade under Castro\u2019s revolutionary structure, information we will use to draw conclusions on patterns in revolutionary Cuba and to connect to larger course themes.<\/span><\/p>\n

This source will be extremely useful for our video project. It describes the core of the revolution from multiple different angles. We hope to do an overview of the key angles in which the Cuban Revolution can be looked at, most likely focusing on culture, the economy, and foreign relations. Mart\u00ednez-Fern\u00e1ndez traces these themes throughout the revolutionary decade. We will be able to see patterns within the Cuban Revolution because of the text\u2019s wide scope and will also be able to allude to more general course themes using this information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mart\u00ednez-Fern\u00e1ndez follows the revolution throughout the entire decade of the 1960s and speaks on every element also present within our Guevara primary source, the \u201cLetter from Major Ernesto Che Guevara to Carlos Quijano, editor of the Montevideo weekly magazine Marcha\u201d that outlines the New Man ideology and tactics that were so valued within Cuban Revolutionary leadership. We will be able to follow the rise and fall of the New Man, an extremely significant aspect of the Cuban Revolution, using these two sources together.<\/span><\/p>\n

This book is also in direct contrast with the biased American primary source from 1963 and provides a good foundation for reliable information that we will need while composing the video project. We will be able to contrast views from the 1960s with a recent historical perspective on the Cuban Revolution. We will be able to mention Cuba\u2019s relationship to the United States through both these sources, using the video with a more indirect, cultural interpretation and using this book as direct facts and arguments to meld with our own argument.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mart\u00ednez-Fern\u00e1ndez, Luis. Revolutionary Cuba: A History<\/i>. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. muse.jhu.edu\/book\/36010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revolutionary Cuba: A History is a comprehensive book detailing the prolonged revolution Cuba experienced under Castro. Chapters 2 and 3 explain what happened in the first decade of the revolution, the timeline our video project will focus on. Mart\u00ednez-Fern\u00e1ndez argues what Dawson argues: that the revolution in Cuba was a process, a movement, rather than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1431860],"tags":[1490699,5130,4559309,284987,4595336,4220],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-ten","tag-che-guevara","tag-cuba","tag-cuban-revolution","tag-fidel-castro","tag-new-man","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}