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Title: From la Cuba de Ayer to el Miami De Ayer: The Cuban “Ethnic Myth” in Contemporary Context

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: As private tour buses pulled up in a designated space in front of Little Havana’s Domino Park on Calle Ocho (Southwest 8th street), I awaited the arrival of a local resident, anthroplogy doctoral student and walking tour guide who agreed to accompany me alongside mixed strip of art galleries, tobacco and souvenir shops, and exilic-Cuban-owned (and increasingly pan-Latinx managed and frequented) retailers and restaurants. That I was born not far away yet felt so removed and disconnected from this space felt bittersweet, if not accentuated by the accompaniment of a resident-informant. My own primos (cousins), familial friends, and distant relatives, equally distant in the suburban Miami-Dade County and Broward County geographic spaces they now occupy, rarely if ever came to Little Havana, save for the occasional after-church meal at La Caretta or Ayestaran restaurant or to take a familial visitor (like me) to pasear (stroll) as the Abuelos once did with them (and with me and my siblings). Like I remember it, the park is full of mostly white, aging Cuban and other Latinx men, save for a few women who play dominoes (or chess) if not more seriously than their male counterparts, meanwhile tourists gaze through the fence, waiting to board their charter bus back to Miami’s cruise port.

Url: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-57045-1_6

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Authors: Aja, Alan, A

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Pages: 175-208

Volume Title: Miami’s Forgotten Cubans

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publisher Location: New York

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States