Karen Lee Wald Cuban research audio visual collection
UC Berkeley. Bancroft Library
UC Berkeley. Bancroft Library
2013
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
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Title: Karen Lee Wald Cuban research audio visual collection
Dates: circa 1982-2010
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2010/241
Creator/Collector:
Wald, Karen
Extent: 131 videocassettes, 66 audio cassettes.
Repository:
UC Berkeley. Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Abstract: Video and sound recordings covering various topics related to Cuba.
Language of Material: English
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Karen Lee Wald Cuban research audio visual collection. UC Berkeley. Bancroft Library
Gift; of Karen Lee Wald; 2010.
Biography/Administrative History
Karen Lee Wald is a writer and freelance journalist from the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area in California, where she also
worked as a bilingual teacher and college instructor. Since 1969 she has been writing about Cuba, where she has maintained
temporary residence since 1982 as a foreign correspondent. Ms. Wald's path to Cuba began in the 1960s Civil Rights, student
and anti-Vietnam War movements, and she continues to travel back and forth between her homes in both countries and to be involved
in the struggles in each. She has helped break the information blockade against Cuba. Her work has been essential to responding
to the disinformation campaigns against Cuba with factual information.
Scope and Content of Collection
Video and sound recordings covering various topics related to Cuba. Materials range in date from the 1980s into the 2000s.
Cuba--Politics and government
Cuba
Cuba--Description and travel
Cuba--Social conditions
Castro, Fidel, 1926-
Alarcón, Ricardo, 1937-