This is Cuba
Subtitle: An Outlaw Culture Survives
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: October 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780813338262
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Area / regional studies; Marxism & Communism; Sociology; Description and travel; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Social Situations And Conditions; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social conditions; Cuba; Economic Conditions; Anthropology - Cultural; Sociology - General; 1959-; 1990-
First sentence: "Rico mani! Rosita rica!" At the Payret theater on the corner of Prado Avenue and San Jose, an old woman driffs past, drawling out the tired vowels.
Description: "Beyond the throngs of tourists streaming through Central Havana's broad Prado Avenue, and outside the yoke of Castro's 43-year-old Revolutionary program, there exists a parallel Cuba - a separate evolution of a people struggling to survive. With personal stories that depict a people torn between following the directives of their government and finding a way to better their lot, journalist Ben Corbett gives us the daily life of many considered outlaws by Castro's regime.

But are they outlaws or rather ingenious survivors of what many Cubans consider to be a forty-year mistake, a tangle of contradictions that has resulted in a strange hybrid of American-style capitalism and a homegrown black market economy."--BOOK JACKET.