ЧАРЛС РАЈТ МИЛС: КУБА КАО УТОЧИШТЕ И ИНСПИРАЦИЈА
CHARLES WRIGHT MILLS: CUBA AS SANCTUARY AND INSPIRATION

Summary/Abstract: American Sociologist Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962) dedicated an important part of his career to the study of Latin American cultures. His initial interest in Mexico and Puerto Rico culminated in his visit to Cuba, in the summer of 1960, several months after the success of the Cuban revolution. This journey had an immense impact on Mills, a professor at Columbia University, helping him to define and articulate his vision of a new, more humane society. The stay in Cuba resulted in the publication if his controversial book Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba. Mills’ case was not isolated. The Cuban experience played a crucial role in the careers of several other representatives of the 1968 generation, such as the German poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger and the French author and philosopher Régis Debray, both of whom, in the late sixties, continued their academic careers at the University of Havana. It should also be noted that Tom Hayden’s recent book Listen Yankee: Why Cuba Matters (2015), published in support of the announced normalization of relations between USA and Cuba, is a reminder of Mills’ immense contribution to the understanding of the issues related to the conflicts between conservative and revolutionary ideologies which still shape our world.

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