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The mortifications : a novel
\"In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel Boatlift. Uxbal Encarnaciâon--father, husband, political insurgent--refuses to leave behind the revolutionary ideals and lush tomato farms of his sun-soaked homeland. His wife Soledad takes young Isabel and Ulises hostage and flees with them to America, leaving behind Uxbal for the promise of a better life. But instead of settling with fellow Cuban immigrants in Miami's familiar heat, Soledad pushes further north into the stark, wintry landscape of Hartford, Connecticut. There, in the long shadow of their estranged patriarch, now just a distant memory, the exiled mother and her children begin a process of growth and transformation. But years later, just as the Encarnaciâons settle into their new ways of life, Cuba calls them back. Uxbal is alive, and waiting.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980
Winner of the Florida Historical Society's 2015 Stetson
Kennedy Award The 1980 Mariel Boatlift was a
profound episode in twentieth-century American history, impacting
not just Florida, but the entire country. During the first twenty
days of the boatlift, with little support from the federal
government, the state of Florida coordinated and responded to the
sudden arrival in Key West of more than thirty thousand Cuban
refugees, the first wave of immigrants who became known as
“Marielitos.” Kathleen Dupes Hawk, Ron Villella,
Adolfo Leyva de Varona, and Kristen Cifers combine the insights
of expert observers with the experiences of actual participants.
The authors organize and present a wealth of primary sources,
first-hand accounts, archival research, government records, and
interviews with policy-makers, volunteers, and refugees that
bring into focus the many far-reaching human, political, and
cultural outcomes of the Mariel Boatlift that continue to
influence Florida, the United States, and Cuba today. Emerging
from these key records and accounts is a grand narrative of high
human drama. Castro’s haphazard and temporary opening of
Cuba spurred many thousands of Cubans to depart in calamitously
rushed, unprepared, and dangerous conditions. The book tells the
stories of these Cuban citizens, most legitimately seeking
political asylum but also including subversive agents, convicted
criminals, and the mentally ill, who began arriving in the US
beginning in April 1980. It also recounts how local and state
agencies and private volunteers with few directives or resources
were left to improvise ways to provide the Marielitos food,
shelter, and security as well as transportation away from Key
West. The book provides a definitive account of the political,
legal, and administrative twists on the local, state, and federal
levels in response to the crisis as well as of the
often-dysfunctional attempts at collaboration between
governmental and private institutions. Vivid and readable,
Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 presents the
significant details that illuminate and humanize this complex
humanitarian, political, and logistical crisis.
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We'll meet again. Season 2, Episode 5, Escape from Cuba
Join Ann Curry for emotional reunions between two Cuban refugees and the U.S. strangers that offered them a chance of a better future decades ago: the man searching for the Mexican-American family that gave him a home as a young boy after Castro's regime executed his father and a Californian fire chief looking for the shrimping boat skipper who brought him to safety.
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Oye Loca
During only a few months in 1980, 125,000 Cubans entered the United States as part of a massive migration known as the Mariel boatlift. The images of boats of all sizes, in various conditions, filled with Cubans of all colors and ages, triggered a media storm. Fleeing Cuba's repressive government, many homosexual men and women arrived in the United States only to face further obstacles. Deemed \"undesirables\" by the U.S. media, the Cuban state, and Cuban Americans already living in Miami, these new entrants marked a turning point in Miami's Cuban American and gay histories. In Oye Loca, Susana Peña investigates a moment of cultural collision. Drawing from first-person stories of Cuban Americans as well as government documents and cultural texts from both the United States and Cuba, Peña reveals how these discussions both sensationalized and silenced the gay presence, giving way to a Cuban American gay culture. Through an examination of the diverse lives of Cuban and Cuban American gay men, we learn that Miami's gay culture was far from homogeneous. By way of in-depth interviews, participant observation, and archival analysis, Peña shows that the men who crowded into small apartments together, bleached their hair with peroxide, wore housedresses in the street, and endured ruthless insults challenged what it meant to be Cuban in Miami. Making a critical incision through the study of heteronormativity, homosexualities, and racialization, ultimately Oye Loca illustrates how a single historical event helped shape the formation of an entire ethnic and sexual landscape.
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