Cuban Studies, No. 43: Demographic Challenges for Cuba and its Diaspora

NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Cuban Studies 43 Edited by Alejandro de la Fuente ISBN 978-0-8229-4421-8 ISSN 0361-4441 Cloth $45.00 Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. Beginning with Cuban Studies 34, the publication is available electronically through Project MUSE®. Cuban Studies 43 is the first volume of the Cuban  Studies series produced under a new editorial team based at Harvard University. The journal was dormant for several years, a transitional period during which it depended on guest editors and occasional submissions. That period is over and we are pleased to report that Cuban Studies, now one of the longest lasting academic journals dealing with Cuban topics published anywhere in the world, has entered a new era. In addition to papers in history, culture, and politics, Cuban Studies 43 contains a central dossier on demo- graphy. This dossier charts some of the important changes experienced by the Cuban population —including those living abroad—and some of the challenges posed by those changes (such as aging, or the changing composition of the expatriate community). A paper in the dossier looks carefully at infant mortality figures and raises poignant questions concerning methodologies and results. DOSSIER: DEMOGRAPHY Sergio Diaz-Briquets Roberto M. Gonzales Alejandro Portes and Aaron Puhrmann CONTRIBUTORS Maria del Carmen Barcia Armando Chaguaceda Alejandro de la Fuente Lillian Guerra Jennifer Lambe Louis Pérez Jr. Rafael Rojas Emily Snyder María de los Ángeles Torres For review copy information, please contact: Maria Sticco, publicist, University of Pittsburgh Press msticco@upress.pitt.edu Alejandro de la Fuente is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University and director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute in the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. He is the author of Havana and the Atlantic in the  Sixteenth Century and A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and  Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba, and is the editor of Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art.

FORTHCOMING, JANUARY 2016 Cuban Studies 44 Edited by Alejandro de la Fuente ISBN 978-0-8229-4447-8 ISSN 0361-4441 Cloth $45.00 Cuban Studies 44 features a dossier on the Cuban  economy that covers economic problems and causation  since 2010 and their possible remedy; tax reform from  2010 to 2014; the reconfiguration of social and economic  actors since 2011 and the prospects of a market economy;  the functioning of state-owned companies within current  restructuring policies; and changes in Cuba’s trade deficit  since 2009. Other topics include the consequences of the  “Special Period” and the de/reconstruction of the “New  Socialist Man”; public health care policies in the post-Soviet  era; the Wallace Stevens poem “Academic Discourse at  Havana”; U.S. General Fitzhugh Lee’s role in Cuban  independence; José Martí’s death as a myth of the Cuban  nation-building project; “Operation Pedro Pan” and the  framing of childhood memories in the Cuban American  community; and the social and political control of non- conformists in 1960s Cuba.