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- Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980: Exile and Integration
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
summary
Everyday life for Cubans in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s involved an intimate interaction between commitment to an exile identity and reluctant integration into a new society. For Catholic Cuban exiles, their faith provided a filter through which they analyzed and understood both their exile and their ethnic identities. Catholicism offered the exiles continuity: a community of faith, a place to gather, a sense of legitimacy as a people. Religion exerted a major influence on the beliefs and actions of Cuban exiles as they integrated into U.S. culture and tried at the same time to make sense of events in their homeland. Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980 examines all these facets of the exile and integration process among Catholics, primarily in south Florida, but the voices of others across the United States, Latin America, and Europe also enter the story. The personal papers of exiles, their books and pamphlets, newspaper articles, government archives, and personal interviews provide the historical data for this book. In his thorough examination Gerald E. Poyo provides insights not only for this community but for other faith-based exile communities.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xi
- Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-7
- 1. Reform and Revolution
- pp. 8-49
- 2. Betrayal and Dissent
- pp. 50-80
- 3. Faith Community
- pp. 81-107
- 4. Identity and Ideology
- pp. 108-128
- 5. The Social Question
- pp. 129-156
- 6. "Just and Necessary War"
- pp. 156-180
- 7. Ethnicity and Rights
- pp. 181-213
- 8. U. S. Hispanic Catholicism
- pp. 214-239
- 9. Dialogue
- pp. 240-270
- Bibliography
- pp. 333-352
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268089771
Related ISBN(s)
9780268038328
MARC Record
OCLC
607100621
Pages
384
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No