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Questioning the Cuban exile model : race, gender, and resettlement, 1959-1979 / Cheris Brewer Current.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Current, Cheris Brewer, 1979-
- Series:
- New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- The new Americans
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cubans--United States--History--20th century.
- Cubans.
- Refugees--Cuba--History--20th century.
- Refugees.
- Immigrants--United States--History--20th century.
- Immigrants.
- Cubans--United States--Ethnic identity.
- Cuba--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Cuba.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso [Tex.] : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, Current offers a fresh approach to a topic that has received a fair amount of attention. She questions traditional narratives on first and second wave Cuban immigration that construct a monolithic Cuban experience and identity. This traditional singular identity and experience is the basis of the Exile Model, which presents Cubans as overtly political, highly educated, universally white, economically successful, residents of Miami, and martyrs of Castro's revolution. This oversimplification ignores the structural assistance that facilitated the Cuban "s
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Introduction; Chapter 1; Normalizing Cuban Refugees: Representations ofWhiteness and Anti-Communism during the Cold War; Chapter 2; "You Are But Hours Away From Miami": ResettlementPolicies and Refugee Experiences with Relocation; Chapter 3; CubaNation: Cuban Communities across the United States; Chapter 4; Cuban Women in Transition: Exile, Work, andNegotiating New Experiences in the US; Chapter 5; Cuban Men in the US: Shifts in Masculinities; Chapter 6; Cuban-American Literature:Redefining Cubanness/Cubanía; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781593326456
- 1593326459
- OCLC:
- 818819052
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