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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Indigenous Society and Conquest | |
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| Christopher Columbus "Discovers" Cuba | |
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| The Devastation of the Indies | |
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| Spanish Officials and Indigenous Resistance | |
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| A World Destroyed | |
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| "Transculturation" and Cuba | |
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| Survival Stories | |
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| Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism | |
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| A Physician's Notes on Cuba | |
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| The Death of the Forest | |
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| Autobiography of a Slave | |
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| Biography of a Runaway Slave | |
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| Fleeing Slavery | |
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| Santiago de Cuba's Fugitive Slaves | |
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| Rumba | |
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| The Trade in Chinese Laborers | |
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| Life on a Coffee Plantation | |
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| Cuba's First Railroad | |
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| The Color Line | |
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| Abolition! | |
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| Cecilia Valdes | |
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| Sab | |
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| An Afro-Cuban Poet | |
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| The Struggle for Independence | |
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| Freedom and Slavery | |
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| Memories of a Cuban Girl | |
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| Jose Marti's "Our America" | |
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| Guantanamera | |
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| The Explosion of the Maine | |
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| U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba | |
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| The Devastation of Counterinsurgency | |
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| Neocolonialism | |
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| The Platt Amendment | |
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| Imperialism and Sanitation | |
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| A Child of the Platt Amendment | |
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| Spain in Cuba | |
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| The Independent Party of Color | |
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| A Survivor | |
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| Rachel's Song | |
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| Honest Women | |
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| Generals and Doctors | |
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| A Crucial Decade | |
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| Afrocubanismo and Son | |
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| Drums in My Eyes | |
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| Abakua | |
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| The First Wave of Cuban Feminism | |
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| Life at the Mill | |
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| Migrant Workers in the Sugar Industry | |
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| The Cuban Counterpoint | |
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| The Invasion of the Tourists | |
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| Waiting Tables in Havana | |
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| The Brothel of the Caribbean | |
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| A Prostitute Remembers | |
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| Sugarcane | |
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| Where Is Cuba Headed? | |
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| The Chase | |
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| The Fall of Machado | |
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| Sugar Mills and Soviets | |
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| The United States Confronts the 1933 Revolution | |
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| The Political Gangster | |
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| The United Fruit Company in Cuba | |
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| Cuba's Largest Inheritance | |
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| The Last Call | |
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| For Us, It is Always the 26th of July | |
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| Three Comandantes Talk It Over | |
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| History Will Absolve Me | |
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| Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War | |
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| The United States Rules Cuba, 1952-1958 | |
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| The Cuban Story in the New York Times | |
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| Building a New Society | |
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| And Then Fidel Arrived | |
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| Tornado | |
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| Castro Announces the Revolution | |
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| How the Poor Got More | |
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| Fish a la Grande Jardiniere | |
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| Women in the Swamps | |
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| Man and Socialism | |
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| In the First of the Revolution | |
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| The Agrarian Revolution | |
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| 1961: The Year of Education | |
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| The Literacy Campaign | |
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| The "Rehabilitation" of Prostitutes | |
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| The Family Code | |
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| Homosexuality, Creativity, Dissidence | |
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| The Original Sin | |
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| Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing | |
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| Silence on Black Cuba | |
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| Black Man in Red Cuba | |
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| Post-modern Maroon in the Ultimate Palenque | |
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| From Utopianism to Institutionalization | |
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| Carlos Puebla Sings about the Economy | |
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| Culture and Revolution | |
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| Caliban | |
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| For an Imperfect Cinema | |
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| Dance and Social Change | |
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| Revolutionary Sport | |
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| Mea Cuba | |
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| In Hard Times | |
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| The Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba's Patron Saint | |
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| A Conversation on Santeria and Palo Monte | |
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| The Catholic Church and the Revolution | |
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| Havana's Jewish Community | |
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| The Cuban Revolution and the World | |
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| The Venceremos Brigades | |
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| The Cuban Revolution and the New Left | |
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| The U.S. Government Responds to Revolution | |
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| Castro Calls on Cubans to Resist the Counterrevolution | |
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| Operation Mongoose | |
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| Offensive Missiles on That Imprisoned Island | |
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| Inconsolable Memories: A Cuban View of the Missile Crisis | |
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| The Assassination Plots | |
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| Cuban Refugee Children | |
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| From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants | |
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| Wrong Channel | |
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| We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? | |
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| City on the Edge | |
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| Singing for Nicaragua | |
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| Cuban Medical Diplomacy | |
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| The "Periodo Especial" and the Future of the Revolution | |
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| Silvio Rodriguez Sings of the Special Period | |
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| From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary | |
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| The Revolution Turns Forty | |
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| Colonizing the Cuban Body | |
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| Pope John Paul II Speaks in Cuba | |
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| Emigration in the Special Period | |
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| The Old Man and the Boy | |
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| Civil Society | |
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| Forty Years Later | |
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| A Dissident Speaks Out | |
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| One More Assassination Plot | |
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| An Errand in Havana | |
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| No Turning Back for Johnny | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Acknowledgment of Copyrights | |
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| Index | |