Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-569) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Binding Familiarities
Sources of the Beginning
Defining Differences
Meanings in Transition
Toward Definition
Affirmation of Affinity
Nationality in Formation
Chapter 2 Persistence of Patterns
The Long War
Design without a Plan
The Order of the New
Terms of Adaptation
Chapter 3 Image of Identity
Travel as Transformation
Representation of Rhythm
Chapter 4 Points of Contact, Sources of Conflict
The Meaning of the Mill
The Presence of the Naval Station
The Evangelical Mission
Baseball and Becoming
Chapter 5 Sources of Possession
Between Image and Imagining
The Promise of Possibilities
Configurations of Nationality
Chapter 6 Assembling Alternatives
In Pursuit of Purpose
Between Arrangement and Arrival
Miami Meditations
Chapter 7 Illusive Expectations
The Reality of Experience
Lengthening Shadows
Revolution
Appendix: Tables
Notes
Index
Illustrations
Cuban ŽmigrŽ neighborhood, Ybor City, Tampa, ca. 1890s
Liceo Cubano, Ybor City, Tampa
S‡nchez and Haya Cigar Factory, Tampa, 1898
Mart'nez Ybor Cigar Factory, Tampa, ca. early 1890s
Hotel de La Habana, Ybor City, Tampa, 1889
ValdŽs Brothers General Store, Tampa, 1897
JosŽ Mart' with Cuban cigar workers, Ybor City, Tampa, 1892
JosŽ Mart' with local organizers of the PRC, Key West, 1893
Cigarette advertisement from El Sport, November 1886
Bullfight ring, Santiago de Cuba, 1898
Ruins of Victoria de las Tunas, 1900
Advertisement for La Gloria City agricultural colony, CamagŸey province
Residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Schultz, Santa Fe, Isle of Pines, 1901
Residence of T. M. Symes II, Santa Fe, Isle of Pines, 1901
Members of the Hibiscus Club, Isle of Pines, 190
Hotel Plaza, Ceballos agricultural colony, CamagŸey province
Reconstruction in Santiago de Cuba, 1901
Construction of Contramaestre Bridge over Cauto River, 1902
Lonja de Comercio, Havana
CamagŸey Railroad Station, ca. 1910s
San Rafael Street, Havana, 1901
Los Estados Unidos General Store, Antilla, ca. 1905
Central Railway Station, Old Havana, 1912
Raising of the Cuban flag, May 20, 1902
Hotel Manhattan, Havana, 1919
Tourist postcard, ca. 1920
Sloppy Joe's Bar, Havana
Hotel Almendares, Marianao, ca. 1920s
Oriental Park Race Track, Marianao
Golf course, el Country Club, Havana, ca. 1920s
Jack Johnson-Jess Willard fight, 1915
Kid Chocolate (Eligio Sardi-as)
Kid Gavil‡n (Gerardo Gonz‡lez)
Nocaut sports magazine, early 1930s
Gran Casino Nacional, Marianao, ca. early 1930s
Sheet music covers, ca. 1910s-1920s
Havana nightlife by day
Tropicana Casino, Havana
Professional rumba stage dancers, Havana, ca. early 1930s
Sheet music cover of Perry Como "mambo" hit, 1954
Home of Jatibonico sugar mill administrator, CamagŸey province, ca. 1920
Preston batey of United Fruit Company
Delicias residential zone, ca. 1920s
U.S. servicemen arriving at Caimanera, ca. 1940s
Baptist church, Cabaigu‡n
Presbyterian church, Havana
Quaker schoolhouse, Banes, 1925
Quaker Sunday school class, Gibara, 1910
Camilo Pascual
Orestes "Minnie" Mi-oso
Pedro "Pete" Ramos
Edmundo "Sandy" Amor--s
Team portrait of Habana Baseball Club, 1911
Ford advertisement in La Mujer Moderna, March 1926
One-cylinder Oldsmobile, 1901
Street scene, Caimanera, ca. 1950s
Advertisement for U.S. correspondence school in Bohemia, 1958
Capitolio, a replication of the U.S. Capitol
Gibara Yacht Club, Oriente, ca. 1930s
Tip Top Baking Co. cake advertisement
Methodist Candler College, Havana
Advertisement for school placement service of Continental Schools, Inc., Havana
Advertisement for "modern" furniture, 1957
Miami storefront, "Cuba in Miami"