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This Episode:
/u/thucydideswasawesome joins us to discuss the interactions between Cuba and the United States starting in the Colonial Era and extending through the mid-20th Century with the Batista regime. Along the way we discuss Americans changing their names to fit in, the plantation economy, the problem of slavery, American shipping concerns, and the tensions between independence and annexation. (85min).
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This was a great episode.
/u/ThucydidesWasAwesome , you mentioned that some Americans went and became Spanish subjects to do business in Cuba. Do you know if any of them, or their kids maybe, were involved with the Cuban emigre groups backing filibustering in the 1850s? I'm aware of a group active mostly out of NYC, but my sources have all focused on the Americans so the Cubans are just "the emigres" or "the junta" most of the time.
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Lars Schoultz's That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution, recommended by our guest, /u/thucydideswasawesome.
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How come early 19th century Anglo settlers in Cuba didn't have the revolutionary separatist impulse of contemporaneous Anglo settlers in northern Mexico?
/u/ThucydidesWasAwesome, you mentioned Lou Perez jr's Cuba in the American Imagination, and the change in newspaper cartoon representation of Cuba from a white lady to be liberated, to representing Cuba as a dark-skinned child after 1902.
Were there communities of Cubans in the United States in the period 1890-1910? If so, did these communities publicly comment on this change in representation and attitude? Does Perez or any other scholar touch on Cubans in the United States in that period?
That was a great episode.
I'm curios if there was some form of protest in the US against becoming a colonial power in the Carribean a mere 100 years after gaining independence. I get that Roosevelt and the political cartoons had a racist view of Cuba, but were there no opposition?
Very interesting topic guys! Hope to see one on the revolutions of 1848 soon