C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution: An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination

In C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution, A. Javier Treviño reconsiders the opinions, perspectives, and insights of the Cubans that Mills interviewed during his visit to the island in 1960. On returning to the United States, the esteemed and controversial sociologist wrote a small paperback on much of what he had heard and seen, which he published as Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba. Those interviews -- now transcribed and translated -- are interwoven here with extensive annotations to explain and contextualize their content. Readers will be able to "hear" Mills as an expert interviewer and ascertain how he used what he learned from his informants. Treviño also recounts the experiences of four central figures whose lives became inextricably intertwined during that fateful summer of 1960: C. Wright Mills, Fidel Castro, Juan Arcocha, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The singular event that compelled their biographies to intersect at a decisive moment in the history of Cold War geopolitics -- with its attendant animosities and intrigues -- was the Cuban Revolution.

Author: A. Javier Treviño
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/05/2017
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781469633107

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2018

About the Author
A. Javier Treviño is the Jane Oxford Keiter Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College.