Book
Capital Cubans: refugee adaptation in Washington, D.C.
AMS Press • (40) • Published In 1989 • Pages: xiii, 256
By: Boone, Margaret S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a commuity study of Cuban immigrants in the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area (the District of Columbia and suburbs of Maryland and Virginia) fifteen years after the Cuban Revolution in 1959-1960. The work is '…both retrospective and contemporary in describing the reasons for immigration to the United States and the nature and pace of adjustment among first generation families' (p.1). A primary focus of this work is on the role played by women in family decisions to immigrate, and their insights into this process also helps the reader to understand the experiences of men and children as well. Ethnographic topics discussed in this monograph relate to the Cuban communication system or 'grapevine', the social 'group' of married couples, the Cuban perception of race and class, festivities, lifestyles, and an historical portrait and role analysis of the Cuban American woman as wife, mother, and worker.Throughout the text the theme of cultural assimilation into mainstream American society predominates.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethos
- Cultural identity and pride
- Labor and leisure
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Classes
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cuban Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960s-1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret S. Boone
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-252) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 88035145
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cuban Americans