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Title: “It’s Like Cubans Could Only Be White,” Divided Arrival: Origins of a Racially Bifurcated Migration

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Publication Year: 2016

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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-57045-1_2

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Abstract: This chapter briefly retells the 1960s’ Cuban exilic arrival and reception experience in South Florida via the lenses of race, using the Rosemond family’s adjustment experiences as illustrative. While vastly fewer in number (and many leaving the region entirely), some Afro-Cubans did settle in South Florida during the early stages of the Cuban Revolution. I apply a mixed methodology, comparing US Census data (5 % PUMS sample) on “white” and “black” Cuban arrivals in Miami-Dade County over time, and ground these dichotomous outcomes in the historical literature on racism in Cuba. Here, I present the historical antecedents, grounded in anti-black racism in Cuba, as background for the presently bifurcated streams of arrival.

Url: http://link.springer.com/10.1057/978-1-137-57045-1_2

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Authors: Aja, Alan A.

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Pages: 27-60

Volume Title: Miami’s Forgotten Cubans

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

Publisher Location: New York

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

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