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The Legacy of Exile Cubans in the United States (Part of the Allyn & Bacon New Immigrants Series)

ISBN: 9780205340903 | 0205340903
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 10/28/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
The Legacy of Exile, the latest entry in the New Immigrants Series, deals with one of the most visible and political of all U.S. immigrant groupsCubans. This is a group that was welcomed to the United States, that transformed a major U.S. metropolitan area, that exerts a powerfuland controversialimpact on U.S. foreign policy, and that has achieved, in a relatively short time, economic success in this country. The theme of the book is that the Cuban presence has been shaped by the experience of exile. In understanding the case of the Cuban immig... MORE
Foreword to the Seriesvii
Acknowledgmentsix
Two Roads to Miami: Personal Introductions
1(14)
Studying Cubans
... MORE2(3)
Grenier's Story: A Minority of One
5(3)
Perez's Story: Through the Classroom Window
8(3)
Organization of the Book
11(4)
From Varela and Marti to Desi and Elian: Cuban Migration to the United States
15(14)
Cuban Migration to the United States Before 1959
16(4)
The Cold War Faucet: 1959--2000
20(6)
Conclusion: Cuban Migration at the Turn of the Century
26(3)
Culture: Exceptionalism, Diversity, and Secularism
29(16)
Exceptionalism
30(5)
Diversity
35(5)
Secularism
40(3)
Conclusion
43(2)
Miami: This Land Is Our Land
45(12)
``We Made Miami''
46(2)
``Miami Made Us:'' Cuban Economic Success
48(3)
Types of Capital
51(4)
Conclusion
55(2)
Family Business: Kinship and Economic Adjustment
57(14)
Migration and Family Structure
58(2)
``Que Pasa USA?''
60(7)
The Family and Economic Adjustment
67(1)
Conclusion
68(3)
Hanging Together, Hanging Alone: Relations between Cubans and Others in Miami
71(14)
Cubans and the White Business Elite: It's not Your Father's Chamber of Commerce
72(2)
African Americans and Cubans: Divergent Fates
74(7)
Conclusion
81(4)
Political Culture: The Exile Ideology and Electoral Politics
85(16)
The Persistence of the Exile Ideology
86(7)
Currents of Change
93(2)
Participation in the U.S. Political System
95(3)
Conclusion
98(3)
The Trophy: Elian Gonzalez and the Cuban American Community
101(16)
Identity and the Legacy of Exile
107(2)
A Wedge Between Communities
109(5)
Conclusion
114(3)
Conclusion: Exiles Much Longer?117(5)
References122(8)
Index130

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