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Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories

2000

57m

10.0

10.0/10

1 votes • View on IMDb

"4K Restoration! This documentary film highlights the experience of Black Cuban American family, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe."

Overview

This documentary traces the tangled paths and multifaceted identity of a black Cuban family in the Bronx. The subjects of this film experienced firsthand some of the great historical events of the 20th century – they saw Castro’s arrival in Havana and had their neighborhood bombed in the Bay of Pigs invasion; one son fought in Vietnam and a daughter marched against it. Both working-class and professional, black and Latino, foreign and native, Spanish-speaking and English-speaking, the family is shown in the constant process of negotiating its identity. On their arrival in Miami, the family immediately encountered racial segregation, and as children in a mixed Puerto Rican/African-American neighborhood in the Bronx, they were forced by their playmates to choose their identity: “Are you black or Spanish?” Even the family’s roots in Cuba are complex - the grandfather was the son of Jamaican immigrants to Cuba – and their relation to the Cuban Revolution is ambiguous.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies

Third World Newsreel

Production Countries

United States of America Cuba

Spoken Languages

English Spanish

Quick Facts

Release Date	January 1, 2000
Status	Released
Language	EN
IMDb ID	tt9701432
Website	Visit Site

Cast

Pablo Elliot Foster

Narrator

Key Crew

Pam Sporn

Director

Pam Sporn

Producer

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