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Heritage Archive: Cuban American Family Stories Pack
Culturally Specific Printable Insert Pages
Your family left everything. The least you can do is write down what they left — and why.
Cuban American families across waves of exile and immigration — including families who fled after the 1959 revolution, Pedro Pan children now in their 70s, Marielitos and their descendants, balseros, and more recent arrivals — each wave carrying different political experiences, class histories, and relationships to the island they left or were born too late to know
The Name It First Experience
Cuban American families carry one of the most politically charged immigration histories in the United States: the 1959 revolution that split families across the Florida Straits, the Pedro Pan airlift that sent 14,000 children alone to American foster homes, the Mariel boatlift, the balsero crisis, and waves of more recent departures. They carry the weight of exile — the properties left behind, the relatives who stayed, the Cuba of memory that no longer exists. They also carry a rich cultural identity: the music, the food, the Spanish that is distinctly Cuban, and the Miami that Cubans built. This pack gives families structured prompts to document what the elders carry — before the last witnesses are gone.
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Sample questions
- Before we begin, take me somewhere — a porch in Cuba that someone described to you, or a kitchen in Miami where Cuba was reconstructed. What do you see, smell, hear?
- Tell me about the person in your family whose story you most want preserved — what they left, what they built here, and what they carried across the water.
- What did the Cuban side of your family leave, and when — and what has the Cuban American identity your family built look like?
- What do you most want the next generation to know about your family's Cuban heritage and their story in America?
Research basis
Grounded in Brah (1996) diaspora cartographies / Cuban American exile scholarship (Garcia, 1996) / oral history methodology applied to refugee waves / multi-generational exile identity documentation.
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