{"id":9576,"date":"2014-12-18T16:19:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=9576"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:46:03","slug":"perezcuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=9576","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e9rez speaks on opening of diplomatic relations between U.S. and Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Louis P\u00e9rez Jr., J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a leading scholar on Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations. P\u00e9rez is contributing extensively to the global discussion on the re-opening of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo speak to Cuba is to speak to Latin America,\u201d P\u00e9rez wrote in a December 18, 2014, op-ed for CNN. The decision to re-open relations with Cuba, P\u00e9rez elaborated, signals the U.S. willingness to respect national sovereignty in a region that continues to grapple with the effects of centuries of colonialism.<\/p>\n

He also is director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

P\u00e9rez\u2019s principal teaching fields include twentieth-century Latin America, the Caribbean and Cuba. Among his books are Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos<\/em><\/a> (University of North Carolina Press, 2008) and Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution<\/em><\/a> (Oxford University Press, 2006). P\u00e9rez has served on a number of journal editorial boards, including Inter-American Economic Affairs, Latin American Research Review, The Americas <\/em>and the American Historical Review. <\/em><\/p>\n

Among his appearances in the media on the opening of diplomatic relations:<\/p>\n