Andrés Pertierra
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why is history, as a discipline, relatively theory averse compared to other disciplines it seems like the aversion is worst in Anglophone historiography, so I'm tempted to blame the English
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Things are definitely getting dire in Cuba and no, the NYT isn't sensationalizing it here.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/world/americas/cuba-economy.html?smid=tw-share I saw some people get mad a while back when US media orgs starte
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for any incoming grad students that follow me but who (like me) may not know coming into their programs: you're not expected to read books front to back in a
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>To expect that if only things get bad enough, Cubans will rise up, when they are struggling just to stand, is not just unrealistic. It is cruel.Glad that someone finally
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Cuba is ironically a really good case study for this.High levels of education, strong legal rights for women, free access to birth control (including abortion).Extremely low birth rates from 1990s
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apparently in 1972 every member of the Venceremos Brigade (US leftists going to Cuba to cut sugar cane in solidarity) got a gift from the North Vietnamese volunteers cutting cane:
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