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Book SynopsisEntangled Terrains and Identities in Cuba: Memories of Guantánamo explores the challenges and conflicts of life in the transnational spaces between Cuba and the United States by examining the lived experiences of Alberto Jones, a first-generation black Cuban who worked at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay. Asa McKercher and Catherine Krull take readers on a journey through Jones’s life as he crossed the entangled political, racial, cultural, and economic boundaries, both in Cuba and living as a black Cuban in central Florida. McKercher and Krull argue that Jones’s story encapsulates the reality of recent Caribbean and Cuban experiences as they deconstruct the events of his life to reveal the broader cultural and social implications of identity, boundaries, and belonging throughout Caribbean and Cuban history.
Table of ContentsForeword by Louis A. Pérez, Jr. Prologue: Entangled Terrains: Empire, Identity, and Memories of Guantánamo Chapter 1: An English-Speaking Diaspora: West Indian Migrants in Cuba Chapter 2: From Boyhood to Manhood at the Edge of Empire: Growing up in Guantánamo’s Shadow Chapter 3: Negotiating Revolution in Guantánamo, 1953-1960 Chapter 4: Caught in the Crossfire of Crisis Chapter 5: Homecoming? Cross Borders Post-Guantánamo
