On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2008 - History - 579 pages
With this masterful work, Louis A. Pĩrez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of t
 

Contents

CHAPTER 1 Binding Familiarities
16
CHAPTER 2 Persistence of Patterns
96
CHAPTER 3 Image of Identity
165
CHAPTER 4 Points of Contact Sources of Conflict
219
CHAPTER 5 Sources of Possession
279
CHAPTER 6 Assembling Alternatives
354
CHAPTER 7 Illusive Expectations
445
Tables
507
Notes
517
Index
571
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Louis A. Perez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society and The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography (both from the University of North Carolina Press).

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