Workbook
For Cuban (American) Families
A Workbook on Political Inheritance, Exile Identity, and the Generational Divide Between Those Who Remember Cuba and Those Who Only Inherit the Memory
You don't carry memory like your parents do. Their need to remember doesn't stop you.
For the Cuban American family spanning generations — where first-gen members carry lived exile and second or third-gen members inherit the story but not the experience — and who want to bridge the gulf between "I remember" and "I only heard about it."
The Name It First Experience
You have a family divided by more than geography. Some of you lived in Cuba and fled. Some of you were born here and inherited the story. Some of you never learned Spanish. Some of you speak it with an accent that doesn't match either place. There's grief here—real, generational grief. And there's also conflict: about how much to remember, whether to preserve, whether to return, whether to let it go. This workbook helps Cuban American families understand what divides you, honor what was lost without being imprisoned by it, and build a shared identity that holds both memory and movement.
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Sample questions
- What is the story in your family about Cuba — and what part of it are you never allowed to question?
- Where does the silence live in your family — the things around Cuba that no one has ever been able to talk about without it becoming a wound?
- What would the Generational Peace Treaty say about how to honor the loss and still give the next generation room to build forward?
Research basis
Grounded in diaspora and exile studies (Said on exile, Hall on diaspora identity, Anzaldúa on the borderlands), Cuban American history and migration studies, intergenerational transmission of trauma and grief, family systems theory (Bowen, structural family therapy), narrative therapy for family identity, immigrant and refugee family dynamics, political identity and family conflict, multigenerational family therapy, grief and loss therapy, acculturation theory, and therapeutic work with families divided by history and geography.
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