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<span><span>This completely revised and updated edition focuses on Cuba since Raúl Castro took over the country’s leadership in 2006. </span><span>A Contemporary Cuba Reader</span><span> brings together the best recent scholarship and writing on Cuban politics, economics, foreign relations, society, and culture in present-day Cuba. Ideally suited for students and general readers seeking to understand this still-contentious and controversial island, the book includes a substantive introduction setting the historical context, as well as part introductions and a chronology. Supplementary resources for students and professors are available on the R&amp;L website.</span></span>

<span><span>Introduction: History as Prologue, Cuba Before 2006, </span><span>Philip Brenner, Marguerite Rose Jiménez, John M. Kirk, and William M. LeoGrande</span><span><br>Part I: Politics<br>Chapter 1: Continuity and Change in Cuba at Fifty: The Revolution at a Crossroads, </span><span>Carlos Alzugaray Treto</span><span><br>Chapter 2: Cuba’s New Socialism: Different Visions Shaping Current Changes, </span><span>Camila Piñeiro Harnecker</span><span><br>Chapter 3: After Fidel: The Cuban Communist Party on the Brink of Generational Change, </span><span>William M. LeoGrande</span><span><br>Chapter 4: The Revolutionary Armed Forces: Loyalty and Efficiency in the Face of Old and New Challenges, </span><span>Hal Klepak</span><span><br>Chapter 5: The Collapse of Socialism Is beyond the Present Horizon, </span><span>Rafael Hernández, Interviewed by Edmundo García</span><span><br>Chapter 6: Religion and Civil Society in Cuba, 1959–2013, </span><span>Margaret E. Crahan</span><span><br>Chapter 7: From Cyberspace to Public Space?: The Emergent Blogosphere and Cuban Civil Society, </span><span>Ted A. Henken and Sjamme van de Voort</span><span><br>Chapter 8: The Promise Besieged: Participation and Autonomy in Cuba, </span><span>Armando Chaguaceda</span><span><br>Part II: Economics<br>Chapter 9: Challenges of Economic Restructuring in Cuba, </span><span>Jorge Mario Sánchez Egozcue</span><span><br>Chapter 10: Updating the Cuban Economic Model, </span><span>Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva</span><span><br>Chapter 11: Cuba’s Entrepreneurs: Foundation of a New Private Sector, </span><span>Philip Peters</span><span><br>Chapter 12: Cuban Agriculture and the Current Process of Economic Transformation, </span><span>Armando Nova González</span><span><br>Chapter 13: The New Cuban Economy: What Roles for Foreign Investment? </span><span>Richard E. Feinberg</span><span><br>Chapter 14: The Political Economy of Leisure, </span><span>Marguerite Rose Jiménez</span><span><br>Chapter 15: Remittance Recipients and the Present and Future of Microentrepreneurship Activities in Cuba, </span><span>Manuel Orozco and Katrin Hansing</span><span><br>Chapter 16: Poverty and Vulnerability in Cuba Today, </span><span>María del Carmen Zabala Argüelles</span><span><br>Chapter 17: Economic Illegalities and the Underground Economy in Cuba, </span><span>Archibald Ritter</span><span><br>Part III: Foreign Policy<br>Chapter 18: Raúlista Foreign Policy: A Macroperspective, </span><span>H. Michael Erisman</span><span><br>Chapter 19: China and the Future of Cuba, </span><span>Adrian H. Hearn</span><span><br>Chapter 20: Cuban–Latin American and Caribbean Relations: Challenges Beyond, </span><span>Monica Hirst</span><span><br>Chapter 21: Cuban Medical Internationalism under Raúl Castro, </span><span>John M. Kirk</span><span><br>Chapter 22: Cuban Public Diplomacy, </span><span>Michael J. Bustamante and Julia E. Sweig</span><span><br>Chapter 23: The Cuban Five and the U.S. War against Terror, </span><span>Saul Landau</span><span><br>Chapter 24: Untying the Knot: The Possibility of a Respectful Dialogue between Cuba and the United States, </span><span>Philip Brenner and Soraya M. Castro Mariño</span><span><br>Chapter 25: Emigration and U.S.-Cuba Bilateral Relations, </span><span>Antonio Aja Díaz</span><span><br>Chapter 26: Dialogues within and between Cuba and Its Diaspora, </span><span>Jorge I. Domínguez</span><span><br>Chapter 27: Cuba, a Country with a Broken Heart, </span><span>Leonardo Padura Fuentes</span><span><br>Part IV: Culture<br>Chapter 28: Living and Creating in Cuba: Risks and Challenges, </span><span>Leonardo Padura Fuentes</span><span><br>Chapter 29: A Black Woman from Cuba, That’s All: An Interview with Nancy Morejón, </span><span>Nancy Morejón</span><span><br>Chapter 30: Two Songs, </span><span>Carlos Varela</span><span><br>Chapter 31: Culture for the Masses? </span><span>Daniel Salas González</span><span><br>Chapter 32: Nationhood and Identity in Contemporary Cuban Art, </span><span>Sandra Levinson</span><span><br>Chapter 33: Questioning Authority: Cultural Expression of Contemporary Cuban Youth, </span><span>Ana M. Ruiz Aguirre</span><span><br>Chapter 34: Zooming In: Making and Marketing Films in Twenty-First-Century Cuba, </span><span>Ann Marie Stock</span><span><br>Chapter 35: Recovering from Crisis?: Literature, Publishing, and Nation Building in Contemporary Cuba, </span><span>Par Kumaraswami and Antoni Kapcia</span><span><br>Chapter 36: Cuban Sport Development: Building Capacity from </span><span>el Parque</span><span> to the Podium, </span><span>Robert Huish and Simon C. Darnell</span><span><br>Part V: Social Change<br>Chapter 37: Cuban Youth: From the “Special Period” to the “Updating” of the Economic and Social Model, </span><span>María Isabel Domínguez</span><span><br>Chapter 38: Notes on the Race Question in Cuba Today, </span><span>Esteban Morales</span><span><br>Chapter 39: Memorable Characters of Cuba, </span><span>Tracey Eaton</span><span><br>Chapter 40: Cuba’s Recent Embrace of Agroecology: Urban and Suburban Agriculture, </span><span>Sinan Koont</span><span><br>Chapter 41: The Cuban Health System: In Search of Quality, Efficiency, and Sustainability, </span><span>Conner Gory and C. William Keck</span><span><br>Chapter 42: Fifty Years Later: Women and Social Change in Cuba, </span><span>Clotilde Proveyer Cervantes, Reina Fleitas Ruiz, Graciela González Olmedo, Blanca Múnster Infante, and María Auxiliadora César</span><span><br>Chapter 43: Cuban Educational Reform during the "Special Period": Dust, Ashes, and Diamonds, </span><span>Denis Blum</span><span><br>Chapter 44: The Changing Dynamics of Sexuality: CENESEX and the Revolution, </span><span>Emily J. Kirk</span><span><br>Chapter 45: Transcript of Television Interview with Mariela Castro, </span><span>Amy Goodman</span><span><br>Chapter 46: Surfing Revolico.com: Cuba’s Answer to Craig’s List, </span><span>John M. Kirk</span><span><br>Cuba Chronology: 2006–2013</span></span>

<span><span>Philip Brenner</span><span> is professor of international relations at American University. </span><span>Marguerite Rose Jiménez</span><span> is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Public Affairs at American University. </span><span>John M. Kirk</span><span> is professor of Latin American studies at Dalhousie University. </span><span>William M. LeoGrande</span><span> is professor of government at American University.</span></span>

<span><span>Supplementary resources for students and professors are available <a href="https://rowman.com/WebDocs/A%20Contemporary%20Cuba%20Reader.2E.Additional%20Resources.pdf"><span>here</span></a></span><span>.</span></span>