1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462533203321

Autore

Current Cheris Brewer <1979->

Titolo

Questioning the Cuban exile model [[electronic resource] ] : race, gender, and resettlement, 1959-1979 / / Cheris Brewer Current

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso [Tex.], : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-59332-645-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

The new Americans

Disciplina

325/.272910973

Soggetti

Cubans - United States - History - 20th century

Refugees - Cuba - History - 20th century

Immigrants - United States - History - 20th century

Cubans - United States - Ethnic identity

Electronic books.

Cuba Emigration and immigration Social aspects

United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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