Havana without makeup
Subtitle: inside the soul of the city
By: Herman Portocarero ; photographs by Joaquin Portocarero
Contributors: Portocarero, Joaquin, photographer (expression)
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781933527888
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; History
Description: xv, 285 pages : 21 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Walls of illusion; title: Exceptional; title: Nocturnes (Havana by night); title: Afro Cuba; title: Havana in black and white; title: Rumba; title: Santería; title: Santería and the racial divide; title: Communist orishas?; title: ¡Salsa!; title: Asia de Cuba; title: "Achinado"; title: Sex & Cenesex; title: ¡Tremenda mariconada!; title: Havana's Hour Zero; title: Proposal for a controversial monument; title: Good money, bad money; title: The economy as a book and a beast; title: Looking west; title: to Asia again; title: La mula como vaca de leche (The mule as cash cow); title: La libreta (the ration booklet); title: El cañonazo; title: The last salvo; title: 1762: British occupation and a defining moment; title: It takes (at least) two to rumba; title: Sitting down (and more) with Europe; title: Cuba no soy (I am not Cuba); title: Traffic lights of history; title: Ghosts of revolutions past; title: Much louder ghosts; title: Napoleon in Cuba; title: The Orestes Ferrara secret; title: The cave at the end of the world; title: Conversation in Café del Oriente; title: Palacio de la Revolución; title: Who's the terrorist?; title: Parque Lenin; title: Playas del Este; title: Jardines de la Tropical; title: Two shore of Art Deco; title: Rum and cigar wars; title: Wave over the wall; title: Patria es humanidad es patria (Homeland is humanity is homeland); title: Havana's Palestinians; title: Next year in Havana/Jerusalem; title: Cantos de ida y vuelta (Songs of coming and going); title: Mulatas de rumba & puellae gaditanae; title: Alma mater; title: God's crocodile; title: La fábrica (The factory); title: Mercenaries; title: Bloggers' breakfast; title: Primero de mayo; title: The pen & the sword; title: Prima ballerina assoluta; title: Le Parisien; title: Hatuey & Huracán; title: Todo el mundo canta; title: Who's the boos?; title: The Holy Spirit on the Plaza del a Revolución; title: Winners and losers; title: Jacobins & dinosaurs; title: Other churches, other gods; title: Misionero del a misericordia; title: Mozart in Havana; title: Art & politics; title: Pelota (The ball game); title: The united mobsters; title: Una mal criada; title: Hollywood Havana; title: Pirates of all kinds; title: Elián; title: New York connections; title: Music has no enemies?; title: El paquete; title: Hemingway; title: Fuster; title: The last Cimarrón; title: Fabelo; title: KCHO/STAINLESS/CUTY; title: Casa Verde; title: Río Almendares; title: Havana and the chocolate factory; title: Tallapiedra (Havana high line); title: Radio Reloj & Radio Bemba; title: La muerte; title: Apotheosis; title: Postscript.