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• Cuba : a new policy of critical and constructive engagement
• U.S. policy : constraints of a historical legacy
• Simulation exercise no. 1 : a meeting of the National Security Council, July 28, 2008
• U.S. policy : a new strategy toward Cuba
• Simulation exercise no. 2 : a meeting of the National Security Council, March 15, 2009
• Understanding the Cuban leadership
• Simulation exercise no. 3 : a meeting of Raúl Castro and his advisers, March 4, 2008
• Transforming disparate voices into a dynamic civil society coalition
• Simulation exercise no. 4 : a meeting of Cuban grassroots activists, July 26, 2010
• Coordinating U.S. policy with the international community
• Simulation exercise no. 5, part I : a meeting of foreign ministers convened by the U.S. Secretary of State in Washington, D.C., October 14, 2010; Part II : a meeting of the National Security Council concerning multilateral engagement and crisis management, November 13, 2010
• Creating consensus in the Cuban American community
• Simulation exercise no. 6 : a meeting of representatives of the Cuban American community, December 13, 2010
• Appendixes
• Understanding the legal parameters of the U.S. embargo on Cuba
• 2008 Florida International University poll of Cuban American opinion.

Today the United States has little leverage to promote change in Cuba. Indeed, Cuba enjoys normal relations with virtually every country in the world, and American attempts to isolate the Cuban government have served only to elevate its symbolic predicament as an "underdog" in the international arena. A new policy of engagement toward Cuba is long overdue . -From the Introduction As longtime U.S. diplomats Vicki Huddleston and Carlos Pascual make painfully clear in their introduction, the United States is long overdue in rethinking its policy toward Cuba. This is a propitious time for such an undertaking -the combination of change within Cuba and in the Cuban American community creates the most significant opening for a reassessment of U.S. policy since Fidel Castro took control in 1959. To that end, Huddleston and Pascual convened opinion leaders in the Cuban American community, leading scholars, and international diplomats from diverse backgrounds and political orientations to seek common ground on U.S. policy toward Cuba. This pithy yet authoritative analysis is the result. In the quest for ideas that would support the emergence of a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic Cuba -one in which the Cuban people shape their political and economic future -the authors conducted a series of simulations to identify the critical factors that the U.S. government should consider as it reformulates its Cuba policies. The advisers' wide-ranging expertise was applied to a series of hypothetical scenarios in which participants tested how different U.S. policy responses would affect a political transition in Cuba. By modeling and analyzing the decisionmaking processes of the various strategic actors and stakeholders, the simulations identified factors that might influence the success or failure of specific policy options. They then projected how key actors such as the Cuban hierarchy, civil society, and the international and Cuban American communities might act and react to internal and external events that would logically be expected to occur in the near future. The lessons drawn from these simulations led to the unanimous conclusion that the United States should adopt a proactive policy of critical and constructive engagement toward Cuba.
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• Introduction : Ludo-Orientalism and the gamification of race
• Evening the odds through Chinese exclusion
• Just deserts : a game theory of the Japanese American internment
• Against the odds : from model minority to model majority
• West of the magic circle : the Orientalist origins of game studies
• Mobile frontiers : Pokémon after Pearl Harbor

How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes As Pokemon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial formation in the United States. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese American internment to the model minority myth and the globalization of Asian labor, Tara Fickle shows how games and game theory shaped fictions of race upon which the nation relies. Drawing from a wide range of literary and critical texts, analog and digital games, journalistic accounts, marketing campaigns, and archival material, Fickle illuminates the ways Asian Americans have had to fit the roles, play the game, and follow the rules to be seen as valuable in the US. Exploring key moments in the formation of modern US race relations, The Race Card charts a new course in gaming scholarship by reorienting our focus away from games as vehicles for empowerment that allow people to inhabit new identities, and toward the ways that games are used as instruments of soft power to advance top-down political agendas. Bridging the intellectual divide between the embedded mechanics of video games and more theoretical approaches to gaming rhetoric, Tara Fickle reveals how this intersection allows us to overlook the predominance of game tropes in national culture. The Race Card reveals this relationship as one of deep ideological and historical intimacy: how the games we play have seeped into every aspect of our lives in both monotonous and malevolent ways.
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• Why waltes was a woman's game / Kevin Leonard
• Playing the Apalachee ballgame in the fields of the thunder god : archaeological and ideological evidence for the game's antiquity / J. Grant Stauffer and F. Kent Reilly III
• "He must die unless the whole country shall play crosse" : the role of gaming in Great Lakes indigenous societies / Ronald F. Williamson and Martin S. Cooper
• Chunkey and the historic experience in the Mississippian world / Thomas J. Zych
• The sacred role of dice games in eastern North America : implications for the protohistoric lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye
• Reinventing the wheel game : prestige gambling on the plains/plateau frontier / Gabriel M. Yanicki
• Gaming in Fremont society / Joel C. Janetski
• Mobility, exchange, and the fluency of games : promontory in a broader sociodemographic setting / Gabriel M. Yanicki and John W. Ives
• Social aspects of an Apachean stave-dice gaming feature at Three Sisters / Deni J. Seymour
• Serious play in the preclassic : the Chalcatzingo figurines as guides in a game of social learning / Mark E. Harlan
• Ancient Maya patolli / John Walden and Barbara Voorhies
• Sport and ritual as social bonding : the communal nature of Mesoamerican ballgames / Marijke Maurine Stoll and David S. Anderson
• Acrobatic dances and games of Mesoamerica as ritual-entertainment / Gerardo Guitiérrez
• Aztec gambling and magical thinking / Susan Toby Evans
• The biggest losers : gambling and enslavement in native North America / Catherine M. Cameron and Lindsay D. Johansson
• Post-game remarks / Warren R. Deboer.

Prehistoric Games of North American Indians is a collection of studies on the ancient games of indigenous peoples of North America. The authors, all archaeologists, muster evidence from artifacts, archaeological features, ethnography, ethnohistory, and to a lesser extent linguistics and folklore. Chapters sometimes center on a particular game(chunkey rolling disc game or patolli dice game, for example) or sometimes on a specific prehistoric society and its games (Aztec acrobatic games, games of the ancient Fremont people), and in one instance on the relationship between slavery and gaming inancient indigenous North American societies.In addition to the intrinsic value of pursuing the time depth of these games, some of which remain popular and culturally important today among Native Americans or within the broader society, the book is important for demonstrating a wide variety of research methods and for problematizing a heretofore overlooked research topic. Issues that emerge include the apparently ubiquitous but difficult to detect presence of gambling, the entanglement ofindigenous games and the social logic of the societies in which they are embedded, the characteristics of women's versus men's games or those of in-group and out-group gaming, and the close correspondence between gaming and religion. The book's coverage is broad and balanced in terms of geography, level of socio-cultural organization and gender.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Tadatse anetsodui (Go and play ball with them): anetso in the Cherokee narrative tradition
• Hani! (Here!): anetso as an enduring symbol of cultural identity in an era of great change (1799-1838)
• Ahaquo! (Still there!): the anetso ceremonial complex
• Tseduga! (Pass it to me!): performing the Cherokee ball game in the twentieth century
• Woye! (Foul!): theory and the meaning of anetso.

Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it lasted so long, surviving through centuries of upheaval and change? Based on his work in the field and in the archives, Michael J. Zogry argues that members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation continue to perform selected aspects of their cultural identity by engaging in anetso, itself the hub of an extended ceremonial complex, or cycle. A precursor to lacrosse, anetso appears in all manner of Cherokee cultural narratives and has figured prominently in the written accounts of non-Cherokee observers for almost three hundred years. The anetso ceremonial complex incorporates a variety of activities which, taken together, complicate standard scholarly distinctions such as game versus ritual, public display versus private performance, and tradition versus innovation. Zogry's examination provides a striking opportunity for rethinking the understanding of ritual and performance as well as their relationship to cultural identity. It also offers a sharp reappraisal of scholarly discourse on the Cherokee religious system, with particular focus on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation. Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it lasted so long, surviving through centuries of upheaval and change?
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Describes the games and toys of the pre-Columbian Indians of North America and discusses how they reflect the cultural similarities and differences of various tribes.

"The game of lacrosse is a gift from the Creator, given to the American Indians in the long ago. But Travis Skinaway doesn't know the full story of the game: he only knows that he struggles to catch the ball and tends to throw it over the other boys' heads. Maybe he's not built right to run the field. His teammates and coach seem to think he's hopeless, anyway. Travis is ready to hang up his gear, but then his grandfather appears in a dream, explaining to him that lacrosse is a spiritual quest, just like a prayer, a song, or a dance. Mom doesn't believe Travis's story, but Grandma knows: she says dreamtime is just as real as awake time. Grandpa continues to visit Travis, sharing details about the different styles of play, the types of equipment, the various traditions among the tribes. Wearing his grandfather's gear, Travis gains confidence as he practices with the team. When opportunity strikes at the big game, he carries the durable weight of tradition onto the field with him, celebrating skills handed down through generations. Co-owner of Redbird Media and Design, Art Coulson (Cherokee) is an award-winning writer and editor with decades of experience playing lacrosse. Robert DesJarlait (Anishinaabe, Red Lake), cofounder of Protect Our Manoomin, is an artist and activist who illustrated Meridel LeSueur's Sparrow Hawk. "-- Provided by publisher.
"Eleven-year-old Travis Skinaway learns about his American Indian culture and history as he practices the Creator's game, lacrosse"-- Provided by publisher.

• Why waltes was a woman's game / Kevin Leonard
• Playing the Apalachee ballgame in the fields of the thunder god : archaeological and ideological evidence for its antiquity / J. Grant Stauffer and F. Kent Reilly III
• "He must die unless the whole country shall play crosse" : the role of gaming in Great Lakes Indigenous societies / Ronald F. Williamson and Martin S. Cooper
• Chunkey and the historic experience in the Mississippian world / Thomas J. Zych
• The sacred role of dice games in eastern North America : implications for the protohistoric lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye
• Reinventing the wheel game : prestige gambling on the plains/plateau frontier / Gabriel M. Yanicki
• Gaming in Fremont society / Joel C. Janetski
• Mobility, exchange, and the fluency of games : promontory in a broader sociodemographic setting / Gabriel M. Yanicki and John W. Ives
• Social aspects of an Apachean stave-dice gaming feature at Three Sisters / Deni J. Seymour
• Serious play in the preclassic : the Chalcatzingo figurines as guides in a game of social learning / Mark E. Harlan
• Ancient Maya patolli / John Walden and Barbara Voorhies
• Sport and ritual as social bonding : the communal nature of Mesoamerican ballgames / Marijke M. Stoll and David S. Anderson
• Acrobatic dances and games of Mesoamerica as ritual-entertainment / Gerardo Gutiérrez
• Aztec gambling and magical thinking / Susan T. Evans
• The biggest losers : gambling and enslavement in native North America / Catherine M. Cameron and Lindsay D. Johansson
• Post-game remarks / Warren R. DeBoer.

Prehistoric Games of North American Indians is a collection of studies on the ancient games of indigenous peoples of North America. The authors, all archaeologists, muster evidence from artifacts, archaeological features, ethnography, ethnohistory, and to a lesser extent linguistics and folklore. Chapters sometimes center on a particular game(chunkey rolling disc game or patolli dice game, for example) or sometimes on a specific prehistoric society and its games (Aztec acrobatic games, games of the ancient Fremont people), and in one instance on the relationship between slavery and gaming inancient indigenous North American societies.In addition to the intrinsic value of pursuing the time depth of these games, some of which remain popular and culturally important today among Native Americans or within the broader society, the book is important for demonstrating a wide variety of research methods and for problematizing a heretofore overlooked research topic. Issues that emerge include the apparently ubiquitous but difficult to detect presence of gambling, the entanglement ofindigenous games and the social logic of the societies in which they are embedded, the characteristics of women's versus men's games or those of in-group and out-group gaming, and the close correspondence between gaming and religion. The book's coverage is broad and balanced in terms of geography, level of socio-cultural organization and gender.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)