Cubans in Miami’s Pan-American Paradise
Cubans in Miami’s Pan-American Paradise
This chapter turns to Miami and discusses the role of Cubans and Cuban popular culture in the city. It examines the social clubs Círculo Cubano and Juventud Cubana, and the nightclubs Tropicana and Barra Guys and Dolls, whose events and activities illustrate the early emergence of “Cuban Miami” in the context of the ideology and racialized practices of Pan-Americanism, and against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution. Through the Spanish-language press, the Cuban groups in the city also demonstrated an early instance of pan-Lantino/a unity in the struggle for social justice. During their stay in Miami, many black Cuban artists found themselves in a Jim Crow city that was protective of its black-white model of racial classification but inconsistent in its treatment and categorization of Cubans and Latino/as of color.
Keywords: Miami, Cuban exiles, Cuban popular culture, Círculo Cubano, Juventud Cubana, Tropicana, Barra Guys and Dolls, Cuban Miami, Pan-Americanism, Cuban Revolution
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