Circulating Culture
Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2023
278 pages
978-0-8130-7286-9 (ISBN)
Description
Tracing the flows of people, material items, and digital content between Havana and Miami, as well as between Cuba and Panama, Guyana, and Mexico, this book demonstrates the worldmaking of marginalized Cuban communities in a transnational setting.
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Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Economic Entanglements between the U.S. and Cuba
- Migratory Flows between the U.S. and Cuba
- Being Cuban in Miami
- Navigating "Anti-Socialism" and "Coca-Cola-nialism"
- Out of the Ordinary
- Flux, Flow, and Counterflow
- Ethnographic Fieldwork
- Structure of the Book
- Part I. Creating Value
- 1. "Fake It to Make It": Conspicuously Consuming Fantasy in Hialeah and Havana
- Bienvenido a "Big Havana"
- The "New Cubans"
- Pawning Saint Lazarus
- Conspicuous Consumption
- Myths of Success and Return
- "When I go back, I'm a king"
- #onlyinHialeah
- The Magic City
- Conclusion
- 2. The Ties That Bind: Remitting Kinship to Cuba
- A Brief History of Cuban American "Substantive Flows"
- "La cosa está de madre"
- Caribbean Kinship
- Cuban Dialectics of Care
- "Estoy hasta la madre"
- "Somos dividuos?"
- Conclusion: Politics, Rupture, and Proxies of Personhood
- Part II. Circulating Value
- 3. The "Mula Ring": Material Networks of Circulation through the Cuban World
- Consumption and Circulation in Socialist Cuba
- The Kula Ring
- The Mula Ring
- A Return Ticket to McDonald's
- Mobilizing New and Old Networks and Hierarchies
- Conclusion
- 4. The "e-Mula Ring": Digital Networks between Havana and the Cuban Diaspora
- The Internet in Cuba
- A Short History of el Paquete
- A Parallel Internet
- Curating el Paquete
- Making a Name for Oneself
- "Los Piratas del Caribe" and e-Mules
- Copyright, Copyleft
- The e-Mula Ring
- Conclusion
- Part III. Returning Value
- 5. "Back to the Future": Nostalgia, Authenticity, and the Antiques Trade between Miami and Havana
- Remembering to Forget
- Shopping in a "Graveyard for Cuba"
- Sites of Preservation
- All-Consuming Nostalgia
- Picking up the Pieces of Cuban History
- The Past Is a Foreign Country
- Inventing Tradition
- Conclusion
- 6. Patria en Muerte: Making Death Matter
- The Matter of Death in Havana
- The Matter of Death in Miami ("Next Year in Havana")
- Ashes to Ashes
- Dust to Dust
- "Next Year in Miami"
- Seeds of Change
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Constructing Cuban Culture from the Cracks of Society
- ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?
- ¿Qué Pasa, Hialeah?
- (Re)Constructing Culture
- Flow and Flux
- Cracking Culture
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- New World Diasporas
