Pichon : a memoir : race and revolution in Castro's Cuba

Moore, Carlos. (Author). Angelou, Maya (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 9781556527678
ISBN: 1556527675
Physical Description: print
xvii, 395 p., [16] p. of plates : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2008.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-376) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Cuba of my birth -- My heroes, the Jorocóns -- Child of reason: daddy's favorite -- Child of anger: my mother's blot -- Under death's shadow: a family in tatters -- Big Mulatto returns: the racial divide -- Season of guns: the merciless Civil War -- Coming to America -- First steps in the land of the free -- My first love -- The real life: my Bohemian fling -- Leaning to the left -- What is a woman? -- Encounter with myself -- Twin stars in my sky -- White warrior -- Showers of blood -- Dancing with the revolution -- Neither white nor black -- Nightmare -- An appeal to Fidel -- Shattered mirror -- Interned -- The coldest of Octobers -- Gift from the Orishas -- Adiós, Cuba! -- Frozen fear -- Return to a wounded country -- Shadows of power -- Exiles within -- A return to self.