Abstract

CORDOVI-NUNEZ, YOEL. People's University José Martí in the political thought orbit of Julio Antonio Mella. Cuba, 1923-1927. Hist. Caribe [online]. 2021, vol.16, n.38, pp.107-136.  Epub May 18, 2022. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.38.2021.2813.

The main purpose of this article is to determine and analyze the stages indicating the definition moments of the role of People's University José Martí, from the time it was founded in Havana in 1923 until its final closure by Gerardo Machado government in 1927, as well as to consider the extent of its objectives and results. The text explores the teaching and political activities of this university, thought up in associations with the university reform process, as well as the administrative structure, the extension curricular design, and the meaning of its cultural and counter-hegemonic educational proposals. These problems allow the authors to understand the political strategy drawn up by its creator, the student leader Julio Antonio Mella.

Keywords : university reform; People's University; student movement; university extension; Julio Antonio Mella; Cuba; Anti-imperialism.

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