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CLAS
Summer Institute for Teachers
"The
Making of Modern Cuba"
August
2-4, 2004
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Cuba has long fascinated the United States. From the
days of Jefferson to the present, the island just off
our coast has been a place of American dreams and nightmares:
of profit, of glory, of the exotic, of revolution. But
what is Cuba? How have internal and external forces forged
the Cuban nation, a tiny country of 11 million people
that, in spite of its small size, managed to play a dramatic
role in the history of the 20th century?
At the 2004 CLAS Summer Institute, teachers from around
the Bay Area met with professors and scholars to learn
more about Cuba: its history, its place in the world
and the situation on the ground today. This Web site
was created to provide the resources of the workshop
to a wider audience and to expand on some of the topics
we discussed.
One
of the highlights of the workshop was Prof. Alex Saragoza’s presentation on Cuba from the 1959 to
the present. To view the expanded version of his chronicle
of recent Cuban history and music <click here.>cubaChron08-16.doc
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