Ybor City
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Author_Sarah McNamara
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Cigar City
Cuban cigar industry
Cuban cigar makers
Cuban cigar workers
Cuban immigration to Florida
Cuban immigration to Tampa
Cubans and Jim Crow
Cubans in Florida
Cubans in Tampa
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Florida
Jim Crow and Tampa
Jim Crow in Florida
Latina activism in the U.S. South
Latina Democrats in Florida
Latinas in Florida
Latinas in Tampa
Latino Democrats in Florida
Latino Vote in Florida
Latinos and Jim Crow
Latinos and Jim Crow in Florida
Latinos in Florida
Latinos in Tampa
Pro-Castro Cubans
Tampa
West Tampa
Ybor City
Ybor City Cuban cigar industry
Product details
- ISBN 9781469668154
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 2023
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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When we think about the origins of Cuban immigration to the United States, we often imagine the anti-Communist exiles who fled the regime of Fidel Castro and settled in South Florida during the 1950s and 1960s. But before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, working-class migrants from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits and made Ybor City the center of the immigrant South and the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry.
Located on the eastern edge of Tampa, a port city along Florida's Gulf Coast, Ybor was a multiracial, multiethnic neighborhood where radical thinkers and laborers found work and refuge against the shifting tides of international political turmoil during the early half of the twentieth century. In Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South, Sarah McNamara tells the story of how immigrant women ensured and fought for community survival across generations and against the backdrop of a post-Confederate, Jim Crow-controlled southern order. Together these women organized strikes, marched against fascism, and criticized American foreign policy. While many maintained their dedication to progressive ideals for years to come, supporting Castro and raising funds for the revolution, many American-born Latinas disavowed leftist politics amid the Red Scare and the wrecking ball of urban renewal.
This searing portrait of the political shifts that defined Ybor City highlights the underexplored role of women's leadership within movements for social and economic justice while vividly illustrating how racial identity is made.
Located on the eastern edge of Tampa, a port city along Florida's Gulf Coast, Ybor was a multiracial, multiethnic neighborhood where radical thinkers and laborers found work and refuge against the shifting tides of international political turmoil during the early half of the twentieth century. In Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South, Sarah McNamara tells the story of how immigrant women ensured and fought for community survival across generations and against the backdrop of a post-Confederate, Jim Crow-controlled southern order. Together these women organized strikes, marched against fascism, and criticized American foreign policy. While many maintained their dedication to progressive ideals for years to come, supporting Castro and raising funds for the revolution, many American-born Latinas disavowed leftist politics amid the Red Scare and the wrecking ball of urban renewal.
This searing portrait of the political shifts that defined Ybor City highlights the underexplored role of women's leadership within movements for social and economic justice while vividly illustrating how racial identity is made.
Sarah McNamara is assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University.
