Person · Open Library
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- 20
Top works
- Boy Kingdom / el Reino de Los Varones
- ¡Viva el Aguacate!
- The Nicotine Chronicles
- Havana Noir
- Papi
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- Total plays
- 1
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
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Research areas
ArtHistoryArt historyPhilosophyPolitical science
Most cited works
- We Came All the Way from Cuba so You Could Dress like This?1995 · 77 cit
- Days of Awe2001 · 23 cit
- We Came All the Way from Cuba so You Could Dress Like This?2003 · 19 cit
- A Conversation with Junot Díaz2009 · 6 cit
- We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?: Stories1994 · 5 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2014 · cited 649x
- Passive targeting of nanoparticles to cancer: A comprehensive review of the literature
· 2014 · cited 385x
- Efficacy of trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole prophylaxis to decrease morbidity and mortality in HIV-1-infected patients with tuberculosis in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: a randomised controlled trial
· 1999 · cited 295x
- Fetal Heart Rate and Variability: Stability and Prediction to Developmental Outcomes in Early Childhood
· 2007 · cited 111x
- Oral genistein-loaded phytosomes with enhanced hepatic uptake, residence and improved therapeutic efficacy against hepatocellular carcinoma
· 2021 · cited 51x
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Quotes
- “Memory, about the futile struggle to remember. It’s a eulogy to all the people who flee the terrible conditions in their home countries, desperately hoping for a better life here, and never make it.”
- “What I’m most obsessed with is the tension between the private and the public self. In Cuba, we call it a “doble moraleja” but in reality, it’s more than that. It’s like people have two completely different realities. That’s very hard. Everyone says that it’s a political situation, but in reality it totally affects your life in every way. You start to become complicit in things that are quite terrible…”
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- date of birth
- 1956-06-28
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