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Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League
César Brioso
Relive the tumultuous preseason before Robinson broke the color barrier.
“This book chronicles baseball history at its best, covering an important chapter in U.S.–Cuba social history.”—Library Journal
“Conjures a colorful era of baseball that predated big-money sports.”—Foreign Affairs
“An informative and entertaining look at an era when the game and the country were on the brink of profound change.”—Tallahassee Democrat
“A major contribution to our knowledge of Cuban baseball.”—Florida Historical Quarterly
Modern Art in 1940s Cuba: Havana’s Artists, Critics, and Exhibitions
Alejandro Anreus
Exploring the work of avant-garde artists in Cuba from 1940 to 1952, this book provides the first comprehensive history of modern Cuban art during the nation’s only democratic period.
Modern Cuban: A Contemporary Approach to Classic Recipes
Ana Quincoces
In this cookbook, Ana Quincoces reimagines traditional Cuban recipes for today’s home chefs, helping readers make timeless dishes that showcase the distinctive flavors of classic Cuban cuisine while crafting meals that are accessible to everyone.
Operation Pedro Pan: The Untold Story of 14,048 Cuban Children
Yvonne M. Conde
Revised Edition
Yvonne Conde presents poignant stories from individuals who left Cuba between 1960 and 1962 in one of the world’s largest political exoduses of children. Writing with compassion and rare insight, Conde uncovers the true tales of a little-known episode of the Cold War.
Tampa Cigar Workers: A Pictorial History
Robert P. Ingalls and Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
Featuring more than 200 photos, this book documents the history of the immigrants who created the cigar industry in Tampa and the extraordinary multi-ethnic community that flourished around it. Commentary drawn from newspaper accounts, oral histories, and archival documents explains each photograph’s historical place and significance.
The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers
Andrew T. Huse, Barbara C. Cruz, and Jeff Houck
This book reveals the social history behind how the Cuban sandwich evolved from its origins in the midnight cafés of Havana to claim a spot on menus around the world. Three devoted fans sort through improbable vintage recipes, sift gossip from Florida old-timers, and wade into the fearsome Tampa vs. Miami sandwich debate.
Fútbol!: Why Soccer Matters in Latin America
Joshua H. Nadel
Discover the dreams, passions, and rivalries that are at stake in Latin America’s most popular sport. Fútbol! explains why competitors and fans alike are so fiercely dedicated to soccer throughout the region. This book illustrates that soccer has the powerful ability to forge national unity by appealing to people across traditional social boundaries.
Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away: Memories of Early Cuban Exiles
David Powell
Bringing together an unprecedented number of extensive personal stories, this book shares the triumphs and heartbreaking moments experienced by some of the first Cubans to come to the United States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959.
Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness
Edited by Anjanette Delgado
This collection features fiction, essays, and poetry from some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home. Celebrated writers like Jaquira Díaz, Richard Blanco, and Patricia Engel, along with many new voices, reflect on heartbreak, belonging, uprootedness, and what exactly makes Florida home.
Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean
Emily A. Maguire
Exploring works of science fiction originating from Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, this book shows how writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre to comment on the region’s history and present-day realities.
La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence
Edited by Viviana Díaz Balsera and Rachel A. May
This volume traces five hundred years of Hispanic culture, politics, and history in Florida. Melding history, literature, anthropology, music, culture, and sociology, La Florida is a unique exploration of the Hispanic roots that run deep in Florida’s past and will shape its future.
Portraits of Cuba
Daniel Duncan, Marcela Vásquez-León, and Dereka Rushbrook
Through dynamic photographs of daily life across Cuba, this book depicts how Cubans of all ages and walks of life navigate the challenges and changes transforming the island today.
Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture
Edited by Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany
In this first systematic comparative study of Cuba and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary perspective, contributors highlight the interconnectedness of the two archipelagos and encourage a more nuanced and multifaceted study of the relationships between the islands and their diasporas.
The Versailles Restaurant Cookbook
Ana Quincoces and Nicole Valls
Miami’s Versailles Restaurant has been at the heart of the Cuban-American community for decades. Through these surprisingly easy recipes, you can prepare bold and savory dishes from the Versailles and bring a taste of Little Havana home.
The Mariel Boatlift: A Cuban-American Journey
Victor Andres Triay
Set against the backdrop of a dramatic refugee crisis, The Mariel Boatlift tells the stories of Cuban immigrants to the United States who overcame frightening circumstances to build new lives in their adopted country.
Tossed to the Wind: Stories of Hurricane Maria Survivors
María T. Padilla and Nancy Rosado
Tossed to the Wind presents gripping first-hand accounts from Hurricane Maria evacuees. In this book, Puerto Ricans of the diaspora describe living through one of the deadliest natural disasters on U.S. soil and reflect on how they, and the island, endured.
Latino Orlando: Suburban Transformation and Racial Conflict
Simone Delerme
Latino Orlando portrays the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who have come to the Orlando metropolitan area from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin American countries. Simone Delerme highlights the profound demographic and cultural transformation of an overlooked immigrant hub.
Anthology of Spanish American Thought and Culture
Edited by Jorge Aguilar Mora, Josefa Salmón, and Barbara C. Ewell
This anthology unites more than sixty primary texts to offer an introduction to Spanish American thought and culture. Myths, poetry, memoirs, and manifestos are translated from Spanish to English, some for the first time.
Picturing Cuba: Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora
Edited by Jorge Duany
Encompassing works by Cubans on the island, in exile, and born in America, this volume looks at three centuries of Cuban art to offer a kaleidoscopic view of the island’s people, culture, and history.
Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies
Edited by April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram
Through topics like migration, European colonialism, literature, music, and art, this volume demonstrates alternate ways of seeing the histories and futures of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Univision, Telemundo, and the Rise of Spanish-Language Television in the United States
Craig Allen
This history of Spanish-language television in the United States charts the development of Univision and Telemundo. Craig tells the inside story of how these networks rose as giants of mass communication and changed U.S. television history.
Works in Translation
Check out these works of poetry, history, and biography translated from Spanish.
Tears and Flowers: A Poet of Migration in Old Key West
Feliciano Castro
Edited by Joy Castro and Rhi Johnson
A rare glimpse into the history and literary culture of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro—a writer, printer, editor, and cigar factory lector—available in English for the first time.
Alive in Their Garden: The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom
Dedé Mirabal
Translated and edited by Ana E. Martínez and Heather Hennes
In this memoir, Dedé Mirabal offers an intimate account of the lives and legacy of her sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, Dominican revolutionaries who were assassinated in 1960 by order of dictator Rafael Trujillo.
The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez: Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo
Minou Tavárez Mirabal
Introduction and Translation by Heather Hennes
This volume presents a translation and critical edition of the letters between Dominican revolutionaries Minerva Mirabal Reyes and Manolo Tavárez Justo, which tell an intimate story of life and love under the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.
The Insistence of Harm
Fernando Valverde
Translated by Allen Josephs and Laura Juliet Wood
In this award-winning collection, the acclaimed contemporary poet Fernando Valverde attempts to transcend the pain of aging, death, and lost love through language.
In the Vortex of the Cyclone: Selected Poems
Excilia Saldaña
Edited and Translated by Flora M. González Mandri and Rosamond Rosenmeier
This bilingual anthology contains lullabies, letters, autobiography, reflections, and more from poet and professor Excilia Saldaña. This collection makes the work of Saldaña, who was famous in Cuba but little-known abroad, available in English for the first time.
Tampa: Impressions of an Emigrant
Wenceslao Gálvez y Delmonte
Translated by Noel M. Smith
Introduction and Notes by Noel M. Smith and Andrew T. Huse
This narrative of a nineteenth-century Cuban émigré brings to life the early Cuban exile communities in Tampa during the Spanish-American War.
Rómulo Betancourt: His Historical Personality and the Genesis of Modern Democracy in Venezuela
Germán Carrera Damas
Translated by Elizabeth Lowe
Available in English for the first time, this book is an extended essay on the “father of Venezuelan democracy,” who overthrew the ruling military dictatorship in the 1940s and established a modern democratic state.
Journal: Spanish as a Heritage Language
In collaboration with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida, Spanish as a Heritage Language is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the theory—and practice—of heritage speaker bilingualism. The first issue of the journal is available for free here and you can view information about all issues here.
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