Living in Cuba
Since the 1959 revolution, Cuba has experienced significant social change .
Today, over a fifth of Cuba's population live in the city of Havana. While some housing in Cuba is good, a fair number in sub-standard residential units.
Coyula & Hamberg (2003) [PDF] provide a good overview of life in Havana and the difficulties people face.
One particular concern has been the increased disparities [PDF] in the social and economic conditions within which Cubans live. Many people in the West comment on the
So what is it like to life in Cuba?
‘Voices from Cuba’
www.cubacenter.org/media/news_articles/walk.php3
Life in cuba today
hometown.aol.com/merengue123/cuba.html
Daily Life in Cuba
www.cartadecuba.org/Life%20in%20Red.htm
Society
Social mechanisms and political order, Enrique S. Pumar
Culture and Identity
Contesting the global: restoration and neighborhood identity in Old Havana, Lisa Reynolds WolfeSocial Control in Cuba
www.udel.edu/DRC/Aguirre/publications/ag76.pdf
lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/cuba6/36amaro.fm.pdf
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SANTERÍA RELIGION
The Santería religion in Cuba is a mixture of Catholicism and other, mainly African, faiths that include a number of cult religions. Commonly, these African cult religions are collectively known as Santería, which is made up of fusion of Yoruba cults and Catholicism. In particular, two African cults dominate namely, orisha cults (Regla de Ocha) and divination cult (Regla de Ifá). The uniqueness of the Santería religion in Cuba comes from the way that the orishas became syncretized with Catholic saints.
An examination of the relationships between Santería, space and ethnicity can be found in Dianteill (2002).
Read about American concerns about the practice of Santeria by Cuban exiles living in the US.