Cuban Culture and Society

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This course focuses on the development of Cuban cultureand society, with special emphasis on the socialist processinitiated in 1959 and its consequences in the areas of culture,the economy, political institutions, class, race, gender, andcivil society. These events are examined within the frameworkof the island's own history, the colonial and postcolonialCaribbean, previous and subsequent revolutions inLatin America, and ideologies, such as socialism, imperialism, and nationalism.