Book
The Cuban-American experience: culture, images, and perspectives
Rowman & Allanheld • Totowa, New Jersey • Published In 1984 • Pages:
By: Boswell, Thomas D., Curtis, James R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses the major social economic, political, and geographical topics relating to Cuban settlement and culture in the United States, with a particular focus on the Miami and Union City - West New York, New Jersey areas. The authors discuss Cuban Americans as an ethnic minority and those events and people which have helped shape the popular image held by others of these people. As background to the study Boswell and Curtis present an historical overview of conditions in Cuba which were largely instrumental in encouraging Cuban emigration to the United States (see category 170). Other topics discussed at length in the text are: distributional and residential patterns, growth and impact of Cuban settlements in Miami, the demographic characteristics of Cuban Americans, language and religious patterns, artistic expression, cuisine and food-ways, politics and ideology, the family, youth, and processes of acculturation and assimilation (p. xi).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- History and culture change
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Speech
- Settlement patterns
- Ethnic stratification
- 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.
- Sociologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- ca.1959-1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas D. Boswell ; James R. Curtis
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83016042
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cuban Americans