cover image Cubans in America: A Vibrant History of a People in Exile

Cubans in America: A Vibrant History of a People in Exile

Alex Anton. Kensington Publishing Corporation, $30 (286pp) ISBN 978-1-57566-593-1

Southern Activists From 19th century abolitionist Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros to six-year-old castaway Eli n Gonz lez, Cubans in America: A Vibrant History of a People in Exile traces the fortunes of the island's millions of emigrants to the U.S. Beginning with the first Cuban settlements in the 15th century, filmmaker Alex Anton and journalist Roger E. Hernandez explore the upheavals in Cuba that brought refugees north, as well as the social and political life of the exiles in the U.S. About half of this concise, illustrated history is devoted to events after the 1959 revolution, with spotlights on Ricky Ricardo, Gloria Estefan and other Cuban celebrities, athletes, businessmen and politicians. (May)