San Antonio College Library

In this insightful and fascinating survey of Cuban-American settlement in the United States, James and Judith Olson look at the unique Cuban-American identity - still intact, highly visible, and politically active - maintained by a people separated from their homeland by ideology and a mere 90 miles across the Straits of Florida. The Olsons point out that, more so than any other U.S. ethnic group, Cuban Americans have achieved a remarkable degree...

The first book to be published in English by the award-winning Cuban writer Eliseo Alberto, this gripping kaleidoscopic novel tells about madness, love, death, and the collision of strangers' lives on one fateful night in a Florida resort town.

A collection of linked tales set in Miami and Havana.

In 1981 Miami, exiled Cuban Marta de la Pena is beautiful, religious and obsessed with conquering Cuba via an odd assortment of would-be guerrillas. As the story unfolds, Marta's family story comes to light, where her father Scipio lives through the sweep of Cuban history toward Castro's revolution and the flight of the family to the United States. Marta remembers the death of her brother Ambrosio, who was killed in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion...

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

This book offers a rare in depth analysis of Cuban immigrants; their social, cultural, economic, and political adaptation, their transformation of Miami into the "northern most Latin American city," and their cross border engagement and homeland impact.

One hundred testimonies on the Cuban diaspora are gathered together from narratives, interviews, creative writing, letters, journal entries, photographs, and paintings to capture the strong emotions surrounding this ongoing ordeal.