Embracing America: A Cuban Exile Comes of Age

Elena Maza,Margaret L. Paris

Embracing America: A Cuban Exile Comes of Age
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Country
United States
Published
31 December 2002
Pages
224
ISBN
9780813025452

Embracing America: A Cuban Exile Comes of Age

Elena Maza,Margaret L. Paris

From a child refugee of Operation Pedro Pan, a mission similar to the Kinder-transport of World War II and the only political exodus ever of unaccompanied children in the Western Hemisphere, comes this touching tale of adventure and coming of age in America. After Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, more than 14,000 children, unaccompanied by their parents, were airlifted to the United States in a controversial effort to provide an opportunity for a better life. This book is Elena Maza’s page in that great collective story, masterfully captured in a series of interviews. In 1961, at the age of thirteen, Elena Maza and her two sisters left their parents in Cuba and were placed in foster homes in the United States. Eventually reunited with her parents, who also managed to immigrate, Embracing America is the story of the Maza family’s survival and Elena’s adaptation to life in the United States. Ironically, Elena left a Marxist revolution to encounter a social one: a civil rights struggle, an anti-Vietnam war insurgency, a women’s movement, a sexual revolution, and the drug culture of the 1960s and 1970s. From childhood exile through the Woodstock Nation to the rediscovery of her Cuban identity, marriage, and the earned respect of the Washington and New York arts and community advocacy scenes, Elena Maza emerges as a remarkable woman who was one of the participants in the significant historical events of the last century.

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