| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Susan D. Greenbaum. More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa. (New World Diasporas Series, number 1.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2002. Pp xiii, 383. $55.00.

In this book on black Cubans in Tampa, anthropologist Susan D.Greenbaum adds substantially to our knowledge of race and ethnicity in twentieth-century Florida. The massive migration of Cubans to Miami, beginning in 1959, has tended to mask a much earlier migration of Cubans to Key West and Tampa that began in the late nineteenth century. As Greenbaum points out, Cuban exiles and immigrants stereo typically have been portrayed as economically successful, politically conservative, and white. By contrast, this book provides a compelling, multi generational portrait of Cuban immigrants who were working class, politically radical, and black. Their story, Greenbaum writes, represents a "lost chapter in the Cuban American experience" (p. 2). 1

Civil insurrection in Cuba between 1868 and 1878, ultimately put down by the Spanish colonial government, brought an exile migration of several thousand Cuban cigar makers to Key West, only ninety miles from Havana. Advocates of racial equality, social justice, and labor activism, the migrating cigar makers included a sizable number of black Cubans. After a series of strikes in Key West cigar factories, in 1885 Vincente Martinez Ybor and other owners shifted their operations to Tampa. Black and white cigar workers from Key West and Cuba followed the jobs and built new ethnic communities in Ybor City and West Tampa. . . .

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