In the years since Fidel Castro came to power, the migration of close to one million Cubans to the United States continues to remain one of the most fascinating, unusual, and controversial movements in American history. María Cristina García—a Cuban refugee raised in Miami—has experienced firsthand many of the developments she describes, and has written the most comprehensive and revealing account of the postrevolutionary Cuban migration to date. García deftly navigates the dichotomies and similarities between cultures and among generations. Her exploration of the complicated realm of Cuban American identity sets a new standard in social and cultural history.

María Cristina García is Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University.

"García has produced a work likely to become a standard on the subject. The book is substantive in content, cool-headed, fair-minded in coverage and treatment, well researched, and smoothly written in effortless authority." —José Luis Sánchez, Multicultural Review

"Havana USA is destined to occupy a prominent place in the growing bibliography on the Cuban presence in this country." —Lisandro Perez, The Miami Herald

"There is very little in print on the subject of the Cuban American community, and most of what has appeared has been politically charged polemic. This balanced treatment fills a surprisingly large gap."—John Hoyt Williams, History

"[García's] book, highly praised, . . . challenges many stereotypes in its balanced and concise look at Cuban emigration and exile politics. . . . An excellent overview. . . . García's balanced approach comes through as she talks about the evolution of the exile community."—Sun-Sentinel

"García has created a compact reference work that is at once highly readable and eminently useful. The statistics are there, but García also effectively conveys something of the turmoil and passions of the times through her own interviews with participants and the judicious use of secondary sources . . . [An] evenhanded account."—Choice

"This comprehensive book focuses on the immigration and adaptation of the first three waves of Cuban migrants to the United States following Castro's seizure of power. . . . García deals with these complex consequences lucidly and dispassionately in a book that will doubtless become the standard reference."—Foreign Affairs