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Graduate Studies Information
Kaifa Roland is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado-Boulder, she has conducted extensive field research in Cuba, with a regional focus on the Caribbean and the broader African Diaspora. Kaifa's first book-length ethnography — entitled Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha (Oxford University Press 2011) – describes the shifting intersections of race, class, sexuality, and belonging. From her research interests, she has developed a course curriculum that considers the global processes that have shaped cultural practice in Cuba and the Caribbean historically and analyzes a variety of popular responses to the pressures of global capitalism today.
Research Interests
- Tourism
- National identity
- Racial and gender constructions
- Popular cultural practices
- Critiques of capitalism.
