José (Pepin) Álvarez was born in Antilla, Cuba, and left his native Cuba in 1969. He obtained a Ph.D. in food and resource economics from the University of Florida and immediately went to work at the University of Florida/IFAS Everglades Research and Education Center in Belle Glade, Florida, where he finished a productive academic career in 2004, receiving the title of Emeritus Professor.
Dr. Anasa Hicks, Timothy Gannon Associate Professor of Caribbean History at Florida State University, reads “Conjuring Ghosts: Domestic Service’s Remains After 1959,” the sixth chapter of her latest book, Hierarchies at Home: Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution, which “explores questions of race, gender, and ethnicity in a field of work with deep ties to Cuba’s slave society past.”
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Dr. Jennifer Lambe, Associate Professor of History at Brown University, reads excerpts from the third chapter in her latest book, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba.
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Dr. Daniel Jesús Fernández Guevara reads from a dossier of documents edited by Lillian Guerra and himself, which they recently published in Volume 53 of the journal Cuban Studies. The dossier focuses on unknown writings and “unheard” voices of Cuban patriots, particularly those of women of all backgrounds and Black men.
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On this edition of Ex-Libirs, Elizabeth Mirabal reads exerpts from her 2020 novel La belleza de la inutilidad.
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On March 21, Dr. Lillian Guerra and Martha Kapelewski presented the Smathers Libraries newest collection. The Eduardo “Guayo” Hernández collection contains documents, letters, newspaper articles, photographs, slides, correspondence, films, documentaries, and ephemera. Guayo was one of the premiere cameramen and journalists of pre-revolution Cuba. Guayo formed Noticuba, a news documentary production company that featured his documentaries in theaters.
Lisandro Pérez, professor in the Department of Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College CUNY, reads selected passages from his book The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga.
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Gifted by Andrew Szentgyorgyi and his family, the Andrew St. George Collection contains over 8,000 photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets as well as manuscripts and documents. The culmination of decades of family stewardship and years of archival and digitization work, the Andrew St. George Collection is an invaluable resource of materials.
Luminary scholar and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale University Roberto González Echevarría reads excerpts from two of his works, Memorias del archivo: una vida (in Spanish) and Cuban Fiestas (in English), diving into deeply personal stories and histories of the Cuban-born author.
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Professor Michael Bustamante, Bacardí Chair of Cuban Studies at the University of Miami, reads from his pathbreaking book on the politics, violence, and culture wars that marked the emergence of Cuba’s exile and island identities, “Cuban Memory Wars.”
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Legendary editor of the Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman reads from his latest book, Give Me Liberty: The True Story of Oswaldo Payá and his Daring Quest for a Free Cuba, published in 2022. View the author’s website: https://www.davidehoffman.com/ Lillian Guerra · David E. Hoffman Reads the Prologue from his Book […]
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Historian Lillian Guerra reads from her newest book, “Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981”, published in 2023 by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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Judith C. Russell, Dean of University Libraries at UF, discusses the vast digital collection, “Celebrating Cuba”.
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The Latin American and Caribbean Collection [LACC] at the University of Florida is internationally recognized as a premier research site for scholars and students of the region.