TY - BOOK ID - 77920048 TI - Questioning the Cuban exile model PY - 2010 SN - 1593326459 9781593326456 9781593323882 1593323883 PB - El Paso LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC DB - UniCat KW - Cubans KW - Refugees KW - Immigrants KW - Ethnology KW - Displaced persons KW - Persons KW - Aliens KW - Deportees KW - Exiles KW - History KW - Ethnic identity. KW - Cuba KW - United States KW - Küba KW - Guba KW - Kkuba KW - Republic of Cuba KW - República de Cuba KW - キューバ KW - Kyūba KW - Kuuba KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Social aspects. KW - Refugees History KW - Refugees 20th century KW - 20th century KW - Refugees Cuba UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77920048 AB - Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, Current offers a fresh approach to a topic that has received a fair amount of attention. She questions traditional narratives on first and second wave Cuban immigration that construct a monolithic Cuban experience and identity. This traditional singular identity and experience is the basis of the Exile Model, which presents Cubans as overtly political, highly educated, universally white, economically successful, residents of Miami, and martyrs of Castro's revolution. This oversimplification ignores the structural assistance that facilitated the Cuban "s ER -