Book
Havana USA: Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans in south Florida, 1951-1994
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1996 • Pages:
By: García, María Cristina.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work focuses on the immigration and adaptation experiences of the first three waves of the post-revolutionary Cuban migrations primarily to the south Florida area of the United States during the years 1959-1962, 1965-1973, and 1980. This document provides not only a history of the post-1959 Cuban emigré community in Florida, but also examines the cultural, political, and intellectual life of this community.The study is divided into two major parts. Part 1 provides a detailed history of the actual migrations themselves following the Cuban revolution in 1959. Part 2 of the book explores larger conceptual issues such as those involved with assimilation into American society, the maintenance of national identity balanced off with the desire to participate more fully in the host society, and the quuestion of what it means to be an American. This section also contains information on various exile organizations, the news media, religion, education, exile politics, and the intellectual and creative life of the emigré community.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Sociocultural trends
- Settlement patterns
- Literature
- Inter-ethnic relations
- External relations
- 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.
- Historian
- 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
- 1986, 1992-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959-1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- south Florida, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- María Cristina García
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-279) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94046401
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cuban Americans