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• W4381949655 abstract "Political Discrimination as a Way of Life and Art in Communist Cuba Lillian Guerra (bio) Rachel Hynson. Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–1971. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 318 pp. ISBN 9781107188679 (cl.); 9781108105330 (ebook). Elizabeth B. Schwall. Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 320 pp. ISBN 9781469662961 (cl.); 9781469662978 (pb.); 9781469662985 (ebook). Seventeen years ago, when I first began researching the Cuban Revolution in Cuba, one of the most surprising sources I encountered revealed in specific ways how the Communist makeover of Fidel Castro’s popular revolution from 1959–1961 relied on the consolidation of political discrimination as the main legally sanctioned, organizing principle for ensuring citizens’ compliance and the appearance of ideologically homogenous popular support. That source was a nearly twenty-page-long form of ideological evaluation that the Cuban state used for decades to decide whether to promote someone in their workplace or school on the basis of their religious beliefs, militia duty, marital status, or conformity with Communist laws. The adoption of Communism ended such things as freedom of the press and having family abroad (considered a treasonous condition until the mid-1990s). In the absence of access to sealed government archives that would reveal how a system built on political discrimination affected citizens’ lives, I spent years collecting and piecing together a jigsaw puzzle of sources, gathered from far and wide, to document the social and political history of Cuba “from within.” Thus, the publication of Rachel Hynson’s Laboring for the State and Elizabeth B. Schwall’s Dancing with the Revolution represents a radical departure from the struggles of the past, in part for what they reveal and in part because of how they make those revelations. Both books are the result of immense efforts: meticulous detective work steeped in cross-continental, multi-country research sites. Opening windows onto previously unexplored and startlingly relevant landscapes of Cuban experience, they are also the products of deep social networks and trust forged between island Cubans and two committed “outsider” scholars. In particular, Laboring for the State represents a game-changing contribution in the field, utterly transforming what questions can be asked and what answers can be found. Focused on four distinct government campaigns to re-engineer Cubans’ social identities, gender norms, and moral values as the primary path to securing support for state economic policies, Laboring for the State counters “the view—long advanced by [End Page 153] the Cuban government and historians of the Revolution—that the revolutionary state achieved social change from above with limited repression or duress” (2). Through the implementation and policing of Euro-centric, heterosexist standards to create nuclear, male-headed families, Hynson demonstrates how the state eliminated all forms of contraception and criminalized abortion (officially banned until 1979), a policy that generated nearly one million more Cubans in the Revolution’s first decade, popularly called “Generation Fidel.” Unplanned pregnancies produced high maternal mortality rates due to illegal abortions and burdened the economy with an overly young, dependent population by 1968, 40% of whom were under the age of fourteen (66, 86). This in turn enabled the state to justify children’s agricultural labor in a new system of ideologically directed rural boarding schools as well as benefit from women’s labor on a “voluntary” (unpaid) basis as an alternative to their participation in the formal labor force (12–13, 18–19, 207, 254–256). Only through the behind-the-scenes collaboration of a handful of medical professionals was Fidel’s abortion ban overcome; by the late 1960s, Cuban doctors found a way to mimic a Chilean copper-wire intrauterine device by using an “anti-imperialist” alternative made from the bagasse of sugar cane. This was at a time when Fidel had ordered all able-bodied Cubans to cut sugar cane for the famously disastrous Ten Million Ton Harvest of 1970–1971 (72–76). State denials of citizens’ rights to control their reproduction went hand-in-hand with three other state projects: “Operation Matrimony,” “Operation Registration,” and a highly promoted, highly secretive anti-prostitution campaign. In all three cases, Hynson..." @default.
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