Guadalupe Garcia, Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana

Abstract

In Beyond the Walled City Guadalupe Garcia offers an original and nuanced analysis of social inclusion/exclusion within the urban space of Havana from its settlement in the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century. Garcia rightly brings to the fore a significant gap in scholarship regarding the African presence in the city and its impact on the historic urban morphology of Havana. Drawing on extensive research from a variety of repositories in Cuba, Spain and the United States, Garcia...