The articles in question Enver M. Casimir’s “Contours of Transnational Contact: Kid Chocolate, Cuba, and the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s”, Louis Peréz jr., “Approaching Change and Changelessness in the Historiography of Cuba”, and Lars Schoultz’s “Benevolent Domination: The Ideology of U.S. Policy toward Cuba’, all share and discuss a long complicated history of Cuban relations and, images of U.S. perceptions of Cubans and how those images and relationships translate into Cuban identity. Clearly, all three articles have a visibly different focus however, underneath lie examples of cultural, social, political and economic significance between the U.S. and Cuban relationship while also highlighting a conduit for Cuban frustration
