Actividades en torno al libro "Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York" esta semana

October 10 Wednesday 6:30 p.m.

Skylight Room, 9^th floor

Graduate Center, City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue

Co-sponsored by the Gotham Center for New York City History, the CUNY

Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, and NYU Press

​https://www.gothamcenter.org/cubannyc.html

October 11 Thursday 4:30 p.m.

Moot Court, room 6.68, New Building, John Jay College, CUNY, 524 West 59^th Street

Co-sponsored by the Office for the Advancement of Research and the Department Latin American and Latina/o Studies

October 13 Saturday 11:00 a.m.

Green-Wood Cemetery, Fifth Avenue and 25th Street, Brooklyn

Lisandro Pérez will lead a trolley tour of the graves of the many prominent Cubans featured in Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution who are buried in Green-Wood

https://www.green-wood.com/event/cubans-at-green-wood-2018/

Reviews of Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution:

Foreword Reviews

https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/sugar-cigars-and-revolution/

Excerpts:

. . . a fascinating excursion into nineteenth-century New York . . . serves as a comprehensive guide to the social, cultural, and political lives of the transnational community of wealthy Cuban plantation owners and their immigrant compatriots . . . Grounded by extensive research and the author’s personal interests, the book reveals the connections between the United States and Cuba from 1823 to the Spanish-American War. During this time, New York City housed the largest community of Cubans outside of the island . . . The text both informs and entertains . . . Great spiritedness animates the prose

Publishers Weekly

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780814767276

Excerpts:

In this colorful and scrupulously researched history, Pérez . . .traces the 19th-century origins of Cuban New York, a vibrant community that developed long before the 1959 Cuban revolution . . . Perez’s engrossing work showcases a little-discussed facet of New York City’s rich history.

Uva de Aragón, El Nuevo Herald

https://www.elnuevoherald.com/opinion-es/opin-col-blogs/opinion-sobre-cuba/article217517875.html

En prosa clara y precisa, Lisandro Pérez cuenta la historia de los cubanos del siglo XIX en Nueva York con rigor y una dosis exacta de empatía hacia los protagonistas. Este libro académico, sin duda un aporte incalculable a la historiografía cubana, se lee, sin embargo, como si fuera una novela.