CROSSING BORDERS: A CUBAN RETURNS
Price: $310.00 Code: 1713 |
Directed by Glenn Gebhard
1998, 50 minutes
Purchase: $310 Classroom Rental: $125
This video chronicles the 1998 return to Cuba of an American college professor, Dr. Magaly Lavendenz, forced as a child to leave Cuba in 1962, and who grew up in the U.S., but with a distinct Cuban identity. As she returns to her childhood neighborhood in Havana, reunites with relatives and old acquaintances, sifts through boxes of family photos, visits a cemetery in a genealogical research effort, we see her visit as an attempt to resolve the lifelong crisis of her true cultural identity, a dilemma shared by many hyphenated Americans in an era of cultural diversity.
"...would be useful for college level courses which focus on the immigrant experience, the history of Cuban, Latin American identity, or Latin American history."-MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship
1998, 50 minutes
Purchase: $310 Classroom Rental: $125
This video chronicles the 1998 return to Cuba of an American college professor, Dr. Magaly Lavendenz, forced as a child to leave Cuba in 1962, and who grew up in the U.S., but with a distinct Cuban identity. As she returns to her childhood neighborhood in Havana, reunites with relatives and old acquaintances, sifts through boxes of family photos, visits a cemetery in a genealogical research effort, we see her visit as an attempt to resolve the lifelong crisis of her true cultural identity, a dilemma shared by many hyphenated Americans in an era of cultural diversity.
Subjects & Collections
Spanish Language Sociology Latino Studies Latin-American Studies Cultural Studies Immigration Cuban Studies
Reviews
"...will help students understand the cultural conflicts immigrants experience and is a good choice for any library that needs material about contemporary Cuba or the immigrant experience."-School Library Journal"...would be useful for college level courses which focus on the immigrant experience, the history of Cuban, Latin American identity, or Latin American history."-MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship