Exiles and Immigrants: U.S. Cuban Communities

Catalog description

Historical antecedents. Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Treaty of Paris, 1898. Early political, cultural, and economic influences. Flourishing of prerevolutionary Tampa, Key West, and New York communities. Afro-Cuban/African American relations. Major migratory phases following the Cuban Revolution, 1959. Contemporary U.S. communities and their relation to revolutionary Cuba. Political leadership, entrepreneurship and ethnic enclave formation. Race, class, gender, and identity. Intra- and inter-group relations. New U.S. /Cuba diplomatic relations