Books

The list of books provide detailed information about the political, and social impact the Cuban community has had on the United States, and more specifically Miami.

Bardach, A.L. (2003). Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. New York : Vintage Book.
King 6th Floor - Call #: [E183.8.C9 B35 2002]

• The quagmire of the shattered Cuban family is the background for PEN Award-winning journalist Bardach's investigation of the tragic parallel universes in the two Cubas: the largest island in the Caribbean and the diverse, multifaceted exile community in Miami. Since 1959, Cuban families have suffered, driven apart by politics, geography, conflicting convictions, secrets, and the anguish of separation. (Sylvia D. Hall-Ellis, LIS Program, Coll. of Education, Univ. of Denver.)

García, M.C. (1996). Havana USA : Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994. Berkeley : University of California Press.
King 6th Floor - Call #: [F320.C97 G37 1996]

•Garcia also investigates the conceptual issues of Cuban Assimilation into U.S. society, the nationalism, the “English-only” movement, multiculturalism, and biculturalism. She explores how the émigrés defined and asserted their identity, how they alter the environment of South Florida, and how it altered them. She studies the controversies raised by exile politics and the creative life of the Cuban émigré community. (Hispanic American Historical review. Aug 1997 vol. 77 issue 4, p 548, 3p.)

Grenier, G.J. & Perez, L. (2003). The Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United States. Boston : Allyn and Bacon.
King Ethnic Studies 5th Floor – Call #: [E184.C97 G74x 2003]

• 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 groups-Cubans. This is a group that was welcomed to the United States, that transformed a major U.S. metropolitan area, that exerts a powerful-and controversial-impact on U.S. foreign policy, and that has achieved, in a relatively short time, economic success in this country.

Levine, R. M. & Asis, M. (2000). Cuban Miami. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
King Nonfiction 3rd Floor – Call #: [ 975.9381 Levine]

•The economic influence of Cubans in Florida's largest city is truly a phenomenon. Cubans flocked to the United States in the years after Fidel Castro's revolution, with nearly 300,000 arriving between 1965 and 1973. In 1980, another quarter of a million people fled Cuba, most to south Florida's "exile capital," Miami. Such is the strength of their cultural heritage that most Cubans living in Miami hold tightly to their Cuban identity, even though generations of them have never set foot in Cuba. (Boyd Childress, Auburn Univ. Lib., AL)

Suro, R. (1998). Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America. New York : Alfred A. Knopf.
King 6th Floor - Call #: [E184.S75 S86 1998]

•Suro, a reporter for the Washington Post, gathers person-in-the-street stories of the Cuban experience in Miami; the Guatemalan in Houston; or the Puerto Rican in New York. Suro discusses the impact on Miami by the Cuban community, and how they view thier role within the United States.