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

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Since 1959, the Cuban revolutionary government has proudly proclaimed that “the revolution is for the kids.” Many Cuban Americans reject this claim, asserting that they selected exile in the US to offer protection to 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 persuade a nationalist and reformist revolution toward socialism. On the same time, Miami exile leaders put children On 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 once probably the most notorious contemporary manifestation of the ongoing struggle to define and keep an eye on Cuban childhood, revealing the persistent centrality of children to Cuban politics and national identity.

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