Instruction
"Welcome to Cuban Cultures!
Each week, a new thread will appear in which you will write an original post of 3-5 sentences, either starting a topic of discussion or responding to another student, on a text or concept covered in our course that week. Your responses will usually be due by 11:59pm on Saturday of the week for which they are assigned."
Texts to discuss:
“Introduction.” The Cuba Reader, pp. 1-5
Staten, Clifford. “Cuba and Its People [ch. 1].” The History of Cuba, 1-14.
Editors. “Indigenous Society and Conquest.” The Cuba Reader, p. 7.
Columbus, Christopher. “Christopher Columbus ‘Discovers’ Cuba.” The Cuba Reader, 9-11.
Las Casas, Bartolomé de. “The Devastation of the Indies.” The Cuba Reader, 12-14.
Various Spanish Officials. “Indigenous Resistance.” The Cuba Reader, 15-19.
Ortiz, Fernando. “‘Transculturation’ and Cuba.” The Cuba Reader, 26-27.
Editors. “Sugar, Slavery and Colonialism.” The Cuba Reader. 37-38
Manzano, Juan Francisco. “Autobiography of a Slave.” The Cuba Reader,
49-57.
Staten, Clifford. “Early Cuba: Colonialism, Sugar and Nationalism: Cuba to 1868. [ch. 2].” The History of Cuba, 15-34.
Barnet, Miguel. “Biography of a Runaway Slave.” The Cuba Reader, 58-64.
Daniel, Yvonne. “Rumba.” The Cuba Reader, 69-73.