cuban americans

Interviews, excerpts from diaries and letters, newspaper accounts, profiles of famous individuals, and pictures from family albums portray the Cuban-American experience.

Chavi's music teacher believes that only boys should play drums in Miami's Festival de Calle Ocho, but Chavi knows she is a good musician and looks for a way to prove it.

Collection of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by Cuban-Americans.

Flor Fernandez Barrios tells the story of her childhood in Cuba under Fidel Castro, discussing the changes the Revolution brought to her family and hometown, the ruin of her grandparents' farm, her time in a rural work camp, and her family's immigration to America.

Text and accompanying photographs describe life, culture, and politics in the Cuban-American community (especially Miami), and the effect of Cuban history on the various waves of Cuban migration to the United States.

Camila, a young girl, describes her life in Miami with her Cuban mother and Puerto Rican father, and introduces the members of her extended family who have come to her home for her little brother's birthday party. Presented in English and Spanish.

Takes a chronological approach to the history of the Cuban-American settlement in the United States, looking at their unique identity--still intact, highly visible, and politically active.

In the early 1960s eight-year-old Kiki leaves Cuba to escape the Castro regime and tries to adjust in two very different foster homes in Florida, first with a poor family in the Everglades and then with a wealthy family in Miami.

Hector Santinio, the son of Cuban immigrants, grows up in New York City in the 1950s, struggling to understand his cultural identity and to come to terms with his high-living father.

Cesar and Nestor, Cuban musicians, make their way from Havana to the New York stage in 1949 where they share triumphs and tragedies.