Zakiya N. Jamal is the author of Cuban Impostor Syndrome
Websites
Interviews
- Mentor Corner: Zakiya Jamal
from the Children's Book Council, June 15, 2023
On the Shelf at CCBC Libraries
The Cuban Americans by
In this insightful and fascinating survey of Cuban-American settlement in the United States, James and Judith Olson look at the unique Cuban-American identity - still intact, highly visible, and politically active - maintained by a people separated from their homeland by ideology and a mere 90 miles across the Straits of Florida. The Olsons point out that, more so than any other U.S. ethnic group, Cuban Americans have achieved a remarkable degree of demographic concentration, primarily settling in the Miami area, and have been among the most politically visible and the most economically successful of immigrant groups, considering that in the early 1990s they were among the most recent arrivals to the United States. The Olsons take a chronological approach to Cuban immigration, covering the origins of a Cuban culture in America, the early Cuban-American community here, Castro's 1955 revolution and reaction to it in Cuba and the United States, Cuban America in the 1950s, the "Golden Exiles" who entered the United States from 1959 to 1970, change and assimilation within the Cuban-American community from 1970 to 1980, immigrants from the Mariel boatlift, and, finally, Cuban America in 1995. Today, the Olsons note, American corporations and Cuban-American entrepreneurs stand poised to do business on the island the minute Castro's stranglehold gives way: hotels, cruise lines, airline companies, cable-television companies, and fast-food franchises are ready to bring capitalism and American popular culture back to Cuba. In the meantime, culturally, economically, and politically rich and bustling Cuban-American enclaves contribute to a unique, hybrid heritage that may one day be returned to Cubabut with a character distinctly its own.
Call Number: E184.C97O46 1995
Article by Zakiya N. Jamal
- 21 Struggles All Afro-Latinos Know To Be True
Buzzfeed, September 18, 2015
Other Writings by Zakiya N. Jamal
- As a Queer Author, I Thought I Had to Come Out Before My Books DidCatapult, November 15, 2022
- All That Glitters: On The Clique Novels and My First Lessons in White PrivilegeCatapult, February 3, 2022
Online From CCBC Libraries
Escape from Cuba by
 In 1959, Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba after overthrowing the government of Fulgencio Batista. In response, thousands of Cubans fled the island, mostly to the United States. This book tells the stories of these Cubans in exile, all of whom overcame great obstacles to escape the brutal Castro regime. Neither a history of Cuba nor of Castro, this book illuminates the underrepresented legacy of the Cuban Exile Community and celebrates their continued thriving in a new country.
Publication Date: 2020
Websites on Cuban Americans
- Facts on Hispanics of Cuban origin in the United States, 2021
from Pew Research Center - Cuban Immigrants in the United States
from Migration Policy Institute, September 7, 2023 - Cuban Americans
from EHRAF World Cultures
