Professor, Sociology/American Culture
spedraza@umich.eduOffice Information:
500 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1352
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; LACS Faculty; Donia Human Rights Center; DHRC Faculty Associates
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1980
Highlighted Work and Publications
Political Disaffection in Cuba's Revolution and Exodus
Silvia Pedraza
Description from Publisher:
In this book, Silvia Pedraza links Cuba's revolution and its mass exodus not only as cause and consequence but also as profoundly social and human processes that were not only political and economic but also cognitive and emotive. But, ironically for a community that defined itself as being in exile, virtually no studies of its political attitudes exist, and certainly none that encompass the changing political attitudes over 47 years of the exodus. The book uses participant observation and in-depth interviews to gain insight...
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