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Title

The Cuban family : custom and change in an era of hardship / by Rosemarie Skaine.

Author

Skaine, Rosemarie.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2004.

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Description

vii, 223 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Tables list such details as population numbers, age, life expectancy, growth, birth, and death rates, immigration and mortality rates, HIV rates, and literacy. The book also includes narratives of childhood memories from pre-revolutionary Cuba to the late 20th century, providing fresh insights into the cultural value attached to the family."--Jacket.
• "This work explores how relationships of blood, marriage, sex, and residence work in each type of Cuban family, particularly in the context of Cuba's struggle to transform its economy. It also examines historical perspectives on the present-day Cuban family, ethnicity and race, the extended family, family rights, the emigrating family, United States citizenship issues, religion and the Cuban-American family."

Subject

• Cuban American families
• Families > Cuba

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-201) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Historical perspectives on the Cuban family -- Influences on today's Cuban family -- The impact of society on the Cuban family -- Cuban family rights and forms -- Politics, emigration and families -- Emigration to the United States -- Cuban American families -- Family narratives of life in Cuba -- Family narratives of life in the United States -- Looking forward.

ISBN

0786416777 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003020300

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library