Black Cuban, Black American : a memoir / Evelio Grillo ; introduction by Kenya Dworkin y Méndez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grillo, Evelio, author.

Series:

Hispanic civil rights series

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grillo, Evelio.

Cuban Americans--Biography.

Cuban Americans.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 134 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 2000.

Summary:

"Ybor City, Florida, was once a thriving factory town populated by cigar-makers, mostly emigrants from Cuba and Spain. Growing up in Ybor City (now Tampa) in the early twentieth century, the young Evelio Grillo experienced the complexities of life in a horse-and-buggy society demarcated by both racial and linguistic lines: Life was different depending on whether one was Spanish- or English- speaking, a white or black Cuban, a Cuban American or a native-born U.S. citizen, well-off or poor. (Even American-born blacks did not always get along with their Hispanic counterparts.)".

"Grillo recaptures in prose this unique world that slowly faded away as he grew to adulthood during the Depression. He relates his increasing assimilation into black American society, and then tells of his adventures as a soldier in an all-black unit during World War II."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Part 1 Ybor City 1

Part 2 Going Up North 37

Part 3 At War 91.

Notes:

"Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage"--Preliminary page.

Other Format:

Online version: Grillo, Evelio. Black Cuban, Black American.

ISBN:

155885293X

9781558852938

OCLC:

43311742