Kindle Price: $25.99

Promotions apply when you purchase

These promotions will be applied to this item:

Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions.

eBook features:
  • Highlight, take notes, and search in the book
  • In this edition, page numbers are just like the physical edition
Read with our free app
You've subscribed to ! We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period.
Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at
Your Memberships & Subscriptions

Buy for others

Give as a gift or purchase for a team or group.
Learn more

Buying and sending eBooks to others

  1. Select quantity
  2. Buy and send eBooks
  3. Recipients can read on any device

These ebooks can only be redeemed by recipients in the US. Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold.
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Amazon book clubs early access
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Explore Amazon Book Clubs

Follow the author

Anita Casavantes Bradford
Follow
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

The Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962 (Envisioning Cuba) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Anita Casavantes Bradford (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.3 3.3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
See all formats and editions
Since 1959, the Cuban revolutionary government has proudly proclaimed that "the revolution is for the children." Many Cuban Americans reject this claim, asserting that they chose exile in the United States to protect their children from the evils of "Castro-communism." Anita Casavantes Bradford's analysis of the pivotal years between the Revolution's triumph and the 1962 Missile Crisis uncovers how and when children were first pressed into political service by ideologically opposed Cuban communities on both sides of the Florida Straits.

Casavantes Bradford argues that, in Havana, the Castro government deployed a morally charged "politics of childhood" to steer a nationalist and reformist revolution toward socialism. At the same time, Miami exile leaders put children at the heart of efforts to mobilize opposition to Castro's regime and to link the well-being of Cuban refugees to U.S. Cold War foreign policy objectives. Casavantes Bradford concludes that the 1999 Elian Gonzalez custody battle was the most notorious recent manifestation of the ongoing struggle to define and control Cuban childhood, revealing the persistent centrality of children to Cuban politics and national identity.
Previous page
  1. ISBN-13
    978-1469611525
  2. Edition
    1st
  3. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    The University of North Carolina Press
  5. Publication date
    April 21, 2014
  6. Part of series
    Envisioning Cuba
  7. Language
    English
  8. File size
    3506 KB
  9. See all details
Next page
Add a debit or credit card to save time when you check out
Convenient and secure with 2 clicks. Add your card

Editorial Reviews

Review

Fits well within an important strand of scholarship addressing the nonmaterialist dimensions of the revolution and its impact at home and abroad.--The Journal of Southern History



Fresh and Insightful….A milestone in a new wave of historiography on the early years of the Cuban Revolution.--Journal of American History



Casavantes Bradford shows how revolutionary Habaneros and Cuban exiles in Miami mobilized youthful images in the service of diverse national futures.--American Quarterly



[An] insightful study.--American Historical Review



Casavantes Bradford covers a great deal of ground with a keen eye for finding the telling moment and a steady hand in relating it in a readable style.--Hispanic American Historical Review



Scholars of childhood, transnationalism, and migration will find much value in this book, and it will no doubt generate fruitful discussions in US and Latin American graduate seminars.--Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

Review

The role of children in the revolution and counter-revolution is a highly complex and controversial subject that has been treated very lightly in the existing literature. Casavantes Bradford makes a significant contribution to the field of Cuban studies by taking on subjects long considered taboo or off limits due to their politically charged contents. As the author shows, the political uses and misuses of children by the revolutionary government, the exile community, and the Catholic church, as well as the reality of racism in Miami and Havana, were factors in the development of post-1959 Cuba, and her insights in this regard make a valuable contribution to the scholarship on twentieth-century Cuban nationalism.--Felix Masud-Piloto, DePaul University

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ZVEOGBO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of North Carolina Press; 1st edition (April 21, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 21, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3506 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 273 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.3 3.3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Anita Casavantes Bradford

Anita Casavantes Bradford

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more

Customer reviews

3.3 out of 5 stars
3.3 out of 5
3 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Roberto Mesa
1.0 out of 5 stars Ladrillo
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2014
Verified Purchase
"Ladrillo"
A "Ladrillo" a very boring read! Nothing neither new nor interesting in this book.A typical boring Graduate school dissertation.
Helpful
 Report
JoeM
1.0 out of 5 stars Poor scholarship characterizes this book.
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2014
A very disappointing book that illustrates another failed attempt to turn a mediocre doctoral dissertation into a book. As another reviewer noticed, it reads like a brick. Content wise, it disappoints by promising way much more than it actually delivers and as such it contributes very little, if anything, to the existing stock of research and knowledge in this area of inquiry. The author's leftist obsession with the C.I.A. leads her to uncritically parrot unfounded claims made by other authors and fill countless pages with conjectures and innuendoes. By the same token, it disregards readily available factual information, such as the March 12, 1999 District Court FOIA ruling clearing the C.I.A of any involvement in the operation to evacuate 14,000 children from Cuba in the early 1960s. Aside from the failings of the author's implicit ideological bias, which she seeks to conceal under the guise of the so-called "collective memory" historical approach, her scholarship is at best poor. Save you money. In retrospect, I wish I had saved mine.
One person found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Report an issue

Does this item contain inappropriate content?
Report
Do you believe that this item violates a copyright?
Report
Does this item contain quality or formatting issues?
Report