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Rebel Lands of Cuba - The Campesino Struggles of Oriente and Escambray, 1934-1974 (Hardcover)
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Rebel Lands of Cuba - The Campesino Struggles of Oriente and Escambray, 1934-1974 (Hardcover)
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The book is a comparative history of twentieth-century Cuban
campesinos in two regions in Cuba marked by extreme differences in
race, gender, and land tenure: Oriente and Escambray. It explores
the ways these differences articulated with state formation from
the pre-revolutionary period of 1934-1959 and then 1959-1974 and
seeks to explain why campesinos in Escambray, having been active in
the insurrection against Batista, later turned to stage a massive
counter-revolution against the government headed by Fidel Castro.
Although campesinos in both regions had been equally ignored by
pre-1959 governments for different reasons, they developed two
distinct understandings of what the role of the state should be in
response to political neglect. Rich archival sources-many of which
have not been accessed previously-document the unique shape of land
struggles in each region in the 1930s through the 1950s. The author
argues that because of the way race and gender and a collectivist
land tenure tradition in Oriente mapped nicely onto the goals of
the 1959 Revolution, Oriente became a kind of revolutionary
showcase. In Escambray, on the other hand, a construct of white
masculinity, tied to private property ownership, directly
contravened the goals of the Revolution, which fueled the
counter-revolution and also led to brutal state repression in the
area.
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