CHABOT LIBRARY
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IMPRESSIONS OF CUBA

Materials in the Libraries of Chabot College and Las Positas College

Most of these books will be found in our displays or near the reference desk.  If you cannot find a title, come to the reference desk and we will locate it for you.

Before Castro's Revolution | Castro's Revolution: '50s and '60s | The Revolutionaries | The Exiles
Cuba and the United States | Cuba in the '70s and '80s | Cuba in the 21st Century | Cuban Arts & Culture

BEFORE CASTRO’S REVOLUTION

Crime of Cuba.
    Carleton Beals. F1787 B32 1970 [1933]

Cuba 1933: Prologue to Revolution.
    Luis E. Aguilar. F1787.5 A66 1972

Cuba, Haiti & the Dominican Republic.
    John Edwin Fagg. F1741 .F3 [1965]

Cuba: From Columbus to Castro.
    Jaime Suchlicki. F1776 S93 1974

The Growth and Decline of the Cuban Republic.
    Fulgencio Batista. F1788 B2783 1964

The Island of Cuba.
    Alexander Humboldt. F1763 H913 1969 [1856]

José Marti: Selected Writings.
     edited by Esther Allen. PQ7389 M2 A6 2002

José Marti Reader.
    edited by Deborah Shnookal and Mirta Muniz. F1785 M3813 1999

Liberty: the Story of Cuba.
    Horatio S. Rubens.  F1786 R92 1970 [1932]

Marti: Apostle of Freedom.
    Jorge Manach. F1783 M38 M2413 1950

Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century.
    Franklin W. Knight. F1783 .K55  

The War with Spain in 1898.
    David F Trask. E715 T7 1981 
                              

CASTRO’S REVOLUTION: THE‘50s & ‘60s

Black Man in Red Cuba.
    John Clytus. F1789 N3C58 1970

Castroism: Theory and Practice.
    Theodore Draper. F1788 D68 1965

Castro’s Cuba: an American Dilemma.
    Nicolas Rivero. F1788 C3R5 1962

Cuba: Castroism and Communism, 1959-1966.
     Andrés Suarez.  F1788 S8813 1967

Cuba: the Continuing Revolution.
    Byron Williams.  F1776 W53 1969

Cuba: the Making of a Revolution.
    Ramon Eduardo Ruiz. F1776 R8

Cuba: the Measure of a Revolution.
    Lowry Nelson.  F1788 N42 1972

Cuba: the Pursuit of Freedom.
    Hugh Thomas. F1788 T47 1971

Cuban Communism.
     edited by Irving Louis Horowitz.  F1788 H57 1972

The Cuban Revolution.
    Robert Goldston. F1787.5 G64 1970

The Cuban Revolution.
    Earle Rice, Jr. F1788.22 C3 R5 1995

The Cuban Revolution: the History of Cuba Since 1952 – the Final Half of the Author’s Brilliant and Encyclopedic Cuba: the Pursuit of Freedom.
    Hugh Thomas. F1788 T47 1977

The Cuban Story.
    Herbert L. Matthews.  F1788 M35

Does Fidel Eat More Than Your father? Conversations in Cuba.
    Barry Reckord. F1788 R38 1971

Eye on Cuba.
    Edwin Tetlow. F1788 T46 1966

Fidel Castro’s Personal Revolution in Cuba: 1959-1973.
    edited by James Nelson Goodsell. F1788 G63 1975

Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution.
    K.S. Karol. F1788 K3813 1970

Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground.
    Julia E. Sweig. F1787.5 .S96 2002

Inside the Revolution: Everyday Life in Socialist Cuba.
    Mona Rosendahl. HX160 P35 R67 1997

Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground.
    Julia E. Sweig F1787.5 S96 2002

Missiles in Cuba: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis.
    Mark J. White. LPC E841 W49 1997

A Rebel in Cuba: an American’s Memoir.
    Neill Macaulay. F1787.5 M3 1970

The Morning After: A French Journalist’s Impression of Cuba Under Castro.
    Victor Franco. F1788 F6813 1963

Revolution in Cuba: A New Look at Castro’s Cuba by America’s Foremost Authority.
    Herbert L. Matthews. F 1788 M353 1975
 

THE REVOLUTIONARIES

African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo.
     Ernesto “Che” Guevara. DT658.22 G8413 2000

Back on the Road (Otra Vez): A Journey Through Latin America.
    Ernesto “Che” Guevara. F2849.22 G85 G71713 2001

Castro’s Cuba, Cuba’s Fidel: An American journalist’s Inside Look at Today’s Cuba – in Text and Pictures.
    Lee Lockwood. F1788 L57 1969

Che Guevara: a Revolutionary Life.
    Jon Lee Anderson. F2849.22 G85 A68 1997

Che Handbook.
    Hilda Barrio and Gareth Jenkins. LPC F2849.22 G85 B37 2003

Fidel Castro.
    Herbert L. Matthews. F1788.22 C3M32 1969

Fidel Castro: a Biography.
    Volker Skierka. F1788.22 C3 S5413 2004

Fidel Castro Speaks.
     edited by Martin Kenner and James Petras. F1788 C27676 2003   

In Defense of Socialism.
    Fidel Castro. F1788.22 C3 A5 1989

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey.
    Ernesto “Che” Guevara. F2224 G7813 2004

The Real Fidel Castro.
    Leycester Coltman. F1788.22 C3 C59 2003

The Rise and Decline of Fidel Castro: An Essay in Contemporary History.
    Maurice Halperin. F1788 H27 1972

Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary.
    Alberto Granado. F2224 G6813 2004

Venceremos Brigade: Young Americans Sharing the Life and Work of Revolutionary Cuba.
     Venceremos Barigade.  F1788 V44 1971
 

THE EXILES

Castro’s Daughter: An Exile’s Memoir of Cuba.
     Alina Fernandez. LPC F1788.22 F47 A3 1998

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy.
    Carlos Eire. E184 C97 E37 2003
 

CUBA & THE UNITED STATES

The Politics of Intervention: The Military Occupation of Cuba, 1906-1909.
    Allan Reed Millett. F1787 M63 1968

The Bay of Pigs: The Leaders’ Story of Brigade 2506.
    Haynes Johnson, et al.  F 1788 J6 1964

Cuban Invasion: The Chronicle of a Disaster.
     Karl E Meyer and Tad Szulc. F 1788 M45 1962
                   

CUBA IN THE ‘70s & ‘80s

The Complete Guide to Cuba.
    Paula Diperna. F1754.7 D56 1979

Cuba, a Different America.
     edited by Wilber A. Chaffee, Jr. and Gary Prevost.  F1788 C765 1989                            

Cuba, Dilemmas of a Revolution.
    Juan M. del Aguila. F1788 .D42 1994   

Cuba in Pictures.
     Nathan A. Haverstock and John P. Hoover. F1758 H4 1974

Cuba Today.
    Lee Chadwick.  F1765.2 C5 1976

Cuba Under Castro: The Limits of Charisma.
    Edward Gonzalez. F1788 G589 1974

Dancing with Cuba: a Memoir of the Revolution.
    Alma Guillermoprieto. F1765.3 G85 2005

Havana Journal.
    Andrew Salkey. F1765.2 S24

Inside Cuba Today.
    Fred Ward. F1758 W37 1978
 

CUBA IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Afro-Cuban Voices: on Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba.
    edited by Pedro Perez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs. F1789 N3 P47 2000

Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-first Century.
    edited by Lydia Chavez. F1788 C25643 2005

Cuba.
    edited by Martha Hostetter. LPC F1788 C759 2001

Cuba: A Country Study.
    (Area Handbook Series) F1758 C94875 2002

Cuba: A New History.
    Richard Gott. F1776 G68 2004

The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics.
     edited by Chomsky, Carr, and Smorkaloff. F1776 C85 2003 

Cuba Today and Tomorrow: Reinventing Socialism.
    Max Azicri. F1788 A93 2000

The History of Cuba.
    Clifford L Staten. F1787 S76 2005

Inside Cuba: The History, Culture, and Politics of an Outlaw Nation.
     edited by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi. F1788 I53 2003
 

CUBAN ARTS & CULTURE

AfroCuba: an Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture.
    edited by Pedro Perez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs. PQ7382 A43 1993

Cuba: a Guide to the People, Politics and Culture.
     Emily Hatchwell and Simon Calder. F1765.3 H38 1999                         

Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo.
    Ned Sublette. LPC ML207 C8 S83 2004

Cuban Elegance.
    Michael Connors. LPC NK2474 C66 2004

Cuban Fire: The Story of Salsa and Latin Jazz.
    Isabelle Leymarie. ML3486.C8 L3413 2002 

Cuban Music from A to Z.
    Helio Orovio. LPC ML106 C8 O7613 2004

Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba.
    Leonardo Acosta. LPC ML3509 C88 A2713 2003

Little Havana Blues: A Cuban-American Literature Anthology.
    edited by Delia Poey and Virgil Suarez.  LPC PS508 C83 L58

Open Your Eyes and Soar: Cuban Women Writing Now.
     edited by Mary G. Berg.  PQ7383.5.E5 O645 2003

A Simple Habana Melody (From When the World Was Good).
    Oscar Hijuelos. PS 3558 I376 S56 2002

Writers in the New Cuba.
     edited by J.M.Cohen. PQ 7383.5 C6 1967