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The rise of Marco Rubio
Profiles the Senator and rising star in the Republican Party, from his humble roots as the son of immigrants to his becoming the youngest Speaker in the history of the Florida Statehouse.
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Miami Transformed
Six-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami's airport in 1961 with little more than a dime for a phone call to their relatives in the Little Havana neighborhood. Forty years after his flight from Castro's Cuba, attorney Manny Diaz became mayor of the City of Miami. Toward the end of the twentieth century, the one-time citrus and tourism hub was more closely associated with vice than sunshine. When Diaz took office in 2001, the city was paralyzed by a notoriously corrupt police department, unresponsive government, a dying business district, and heated ethnic and racial divisions. During Diaz's two terms as mayor, Miami was transformed into a vibrant, progressive, and economically resurgent world-class metropolis.In Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time, award-winning former mayor Manny Diaz shares lessons learned from governing one of the most diverse and dynamic urban communities in the United States. This firsthand account begins with Diaz's memories as an immigrant child in a foreign land, his education, and his political development as part of a new generation of Cuban Americans. Diaz also discusses his role in the controversial Elián González case. Later he details how he managed two successful mayoral campaigns, navigated the maze of municipal politics, oversaw the revitalization of downtown Miami, and rooted out police corruption to regain the trust of businesses and Miami citizens.Part memoir, part political primer, Miami Transformed offers a straightforward look at Diaz's brand of holistic, pragmatic urban leadership that combines public investment in education and infrastructure with private sector partnerships. The story of Manny Diaz's efforts to renew Miami will interest anyone seeking to foster safer, greener, and more prosperous cities.
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\My Country\ / \This Country\: Ambivalent Belongings of Cuban Americans in South Florida
This article explores significant notions of home and belonging among first- and second-generation Cuban immigrants in South Florida. The analyses are derived from biographical narrative interviews with six Cuban Americans. Three key subjects were in the biographical life stories--the notion of escape or leaving, the sense of home, and constructions of Cuban identity. In assessing these themes, we found there to be profound differences between the generations. Moreover, these Cuban biographies demonstrate how differing stories of migration provide new theoretical perspectives on immigration, transnationalism, and ethnicity. The experiences presented and discussed here connect to the ambivalence and complexity of belongingness and interpretations of Cuban-ness. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0903134
Journal Article
Shrine a giant tribute to bishop and his devout Cuban parishioners
COCONUT GROVE, Fla.-- After I knocked on the door to Bishop Roman's office at a sparkling Catholic shrine built by his fellow Cuban exiles, the most prominent Cuban in the American church appeared and let me in.
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Cuban Miami: Seeking Identity in a Political Borderland
\"Cuban-Jewish Journeys: Searching for Identity, Home, and History in Miami\" by Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, \"The Cuban Exile Movement: Dissidents or Mercenaries?\" by Hernando Calvo and Katlijn Declerq and \"Cuban Miami in Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994\" by Maria Cristina Garcia are reviewed.
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