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Lagumina, Salvatore J. “Case Studies in Ethnicity and Italo‐American Politicians.” The Italian Experience in the United States, eds. Silvano H. Tomasi and Madeline H. Engel. (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1970), pp. 143–61.

Luthin, Reinhard H. American Demagogues: Twentieth Century (New York: Peter Smith, 1954).

Mills, C. Wright; Senior, Clarence; and Goldsen, Rose Kohn. The Puerto Rican Journey: Newest Migrants (New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1950).

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Starobin, Joseph. American Communism in Crisis, 1943–1957 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972).

Walzer, Kenneth. “The Party and the Polling Place: American Communism and an American Labor Party.” Radical History Review; 23 (Spring 1980), pp. 104–35.

Herbert G. Gutman, POWER AND CULTURE: ESSAYS ON THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS, Ira Berlin, ed. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987)

Peter H. Rossi, DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA: THE ORIGINS OF HOMELESSNESS (Chicago and London: University Of Chicago Press, 1989). Charles Hoch and Robert A. Slayton, NEW HOMELESS AND OLD: COMMUNITY AND THE SKID ROW HOTEL (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989).

Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., Jeffrey Paul, John Ahrens eds. (Basil Blackwell, 1989), CAPITALISM and Jon Elster and Karl Ove Moene eds. ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM‐STUDIES IN MARXISM AND SOCIAL THEORY (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Michael Walzer, INTERPRETATION AND SOCIAL CRITICISM (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)

Andrew Gamble, THE FREE ECONOMY AND THE STRONG STATE: THE POLITICS OF THATCHERISM (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988)     

The Calculus of Nation in the Cuban Revolution

The history of Cuba was imbued with a sense of purpose at its inception. To have discerned the need at all for a history of Cuba in the nineteenth century was itself product and portent of a momentous shift in consciousness, an occasion when narratives of the past revealed themselves as a potential source of national community. The history of Cuba began at the moment that the past became relevant to the future. Historical narrative developed as a matter of necessity, a product of a time and place, a means by which Cubans addressed the needs of their times. Purpose and point of view were inscribed into the very premise of the historical narrative, and indeed fixed the narrative genre around which the history of Cuba was structured. The historical narrative in this instance contained a premonition of nation which shared something with the new collective consciousness to which it contributed. Historical consciousness was itself a product of national formation, to which it responded and for which it was summoned: the proposition of a shared awareness of a common past with which to bring a people together and justify a nation apart.     

The Third Mountain: A Meditation on Chaos and Order

Thinking is a way of being that isalways in danger of clinging to merelyconceptual distinctions. The oppositionbetween Chaos and Order bounds all modesof Western thought, and this means that italways manages to impose Order at some level orother: for example, the kind of Order thatdivides Chaos from Order, or my project fromyour project, or silence from speech. This wayof thinking is not necessarily regrettable,but it is or can become an impediment. Thispaper interprets the relation between Chaos andOrder in Western thought, using the work ofSartre, Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida, Heidegger,and Wittgenstein as its principal examples. Italso speculates on the possibility of a way ofbeing that does not reject dualism, but doesnot cling to it either.