L Kaifa Roland
Biographic Data
| ID | 101273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Kaifa Roland |
| GIVEN NAMES | L Kaifa |
| FAMILY NAME | Roland |
| SIGNATURE | ROLAND L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8510-134X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Another Four Women: AfroCubana Entrepreneurs as Womanist Praxis
This article is focused on four Black women entrepreneurs in Cuba's lucrative bed and breakfast home‐based tourism economy, asking: (1) what intersectional factors facilitated their entrepreneurial enterprises, (2) how they conceptualize success, and (3) how their narratives illuminate patterns involving gendered race in the country's increasingly market‐oriented context, and what opportunities might be on the horizon? Their narratives provide a …
Völkening, Niklas: Identity, Commodification and Revolution. Tourism and the Transformation of Society, Politics and Space in Cuba
Black Hair Everywhere
On Scandal, Kerry Washington starred as Olivia Pope. She is a political “fixer” who-in the early seasons of the show-happened to be having an affair with the President of the United States
Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture, written by Angelique V. Nixon
How bodies matter: Yesterday’s America today
The article takes its cue from the statement in the original essay, "Trump's body matters," and considers examples of how different kinds of bodies were demonstrated to matter in candidate Trump's campaign discourse. With his "Make America Great Again" slogan in mind, the article tacks back and forth between Trump's campaign discourse on black, brown, and female bodies and various forms of violence and discipline exercised in America's racialized…
T/Racing Belonging Through Cuban Tourism: T/Racing Belonging Through Cuban Tourism
Because Cuban "race" operates on a flexible black-white continuum, with performance and social markers like class and foreign-ness affecting racial assignment, the very category itself remains unstable. I examine this instability in Cuban touristic practice, focusing on the way in which questions of belonging and origin, as well as perceived differences between "us" and "them," mark and assign racial identity in different ways. I became aware of …
Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meanings
"Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meanings offers a provocative look at what it means to belong in modern socialist Cuba. Drawn from her extensive travels throughout Cuba over the past decade, author L. Kaifa Roland pulls back the curtain on a country that has remained mysterious to Americans since the mid-twentieth century. Through vivid vignettes and firsthand details, Roland exposes the lasting effects of the colla…
Tourism and the commodification of Cubanidad
The article seeks to analyze the contradictions involved with the commoditization in Cuba’s revitalized tourism industry during the post-Soviet Special Period vis-a-vis the revolution’s Marxist— Leninist ideology. The paper provides an agent-based interpretation of cultural commodification by using ethnographic data to argue that the Cuban hosts to tourism empower themselves amidst the industry’s commodifying nature by manipulating and performing…
After Fidel, Much the Same
Tourism and the Negrificación of Cuban Identity
T/Racing Belonging Through Cuban Tourism: T/Racing Belonging Through Cuban Tourism
Because Cuban "race" operates on a flexible black-white continuum, with performance and social markers like class and foreign-ness affecting racial assignment, the very category itself remains unstable. I examine this instability in Cuban touristic practice, focusing on the way in which questions of belonging and origin, as well as perceived differences between "us" and "them," mark and assign racial identity in different ways. I became aware of …
How bodies matter: Yesterday’s America today
The article takes its cue from the statement in the original essay, "Trump's body matters," and considers examples of how different kinds of bodies were demonstrated to matter in candidate Trump's campaign discourse. With his "Make America Great Again" slogan in mind, the article tacks back and forth between Trump's campaign discourse on black, brown, and female bodies and various forms of violence and discipline exercised in America's racialized…
Tourism and the Negrificación of Cuban Identity
Tourism and the commodification of Cubanidad
The article seeks to analyze the contradictions involved with the commoditization in Cuba’s revitalized tourism industry during the post-Soviet Special Period vis-a-vis the revolution’s Marxist— Leninist ideology. The paper provides an agent-based interpretation of cultural commodification by using ethnographic data to argue that the Cuban hosts to tourism empower themselves amidst the industry’s commodifying nature by manipulating and performing…
Tourism and the Negrificación of Cuban Identity
After Fidel, Much the Same
Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meanings
"Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meanings offers a provocative look at what it means to belong in modern socialist Cuba. Drawn from her extensive travels throughout Cuba over the past decade, author L. Kaifa Roland pulls back the curtain on a country that has remained mysterious to Americans since the mid-twentieth century. Through vivid vignettes and firsthand details, Roland exposes the lasting effects of the colla…
Tourism and the commodification of Cubanidad
The article seeks to analyze the contradictions involved with the commoditization in Cuba’s revitalized tourism industry during the post-Soviet Special Period vis-a-vis the revolution’s Marxist— Leninist ideology. The paper provides an agent-based interpretation of cultural commodification by using ethnographic data to argue that the Cuban hosts to tourism empower themselves amidst the industry’s commodifying nature by manipulating and performing…
T/Racing Belonging Through Cuban Tourism: T/Racing Belonging Through Cuban Tourism
Because Cuban "race" operates on a flexible black-white continuum, with performance and social markers like class and foreign-ness affecting racial assignment, the very category itself remains unstable. I examine this instability in Cuban touristic practice, focusing on the way in which questions of belonging and origin, as well as perceived differences between "us" and "them," mark and assign racial identity in different ways. I became aware of …
Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture, written by Angelique V. Nixon
How bodies matter: Yesterday’s America today
The article takes its cue from the statement in the original essay, "Trump's body matters," and considers examples of how different kinds of bodies were demonstrated to matter in candidate Trump's campaign discourse. With his "Make America Great Again" slogan in mind, the article tacks back and forth between Trump's campaign discourse on black, brown, and female bodies and various forms of violence and discipline exercised in America's racialized…
Black Hair Everywhere
On Scandal, Kerry Washington starred as Olivia Pope. She is a political “fixer” who-in the early seasons of the show-happened to be having an affair with the President of the United States
Völkening, Niklas: Identity, Commodification and Revolution. Tourism and the Transformation of Society, Politics and Space in Cuba
Another Four Women: AfroCubana Entrepreneurs as Womanist Praxis
This article is focused on four Black women entrepreneurs in Cuba's lucrative bed and breakfast home‐based tourism economy, asking: (1) what intersectional factors facilitated their entrepreneurial enterprises, (2) how they conceptualize success, and (3) how their narratives illuminate patterns involving gendered race in the country's increasingly market‐oriented context, and what opportunities might be on the horizon? Their narratives provide a …
Sociology (7 works) · Tourism (7 works) · Cuban History and Society (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 works)