So Close to the Monster
Gilberto Perez: The Trouble with Being Cuban, 22 June 2000
On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture
by Louis Pérez Jr..
North Carolina, 579 pp., £31.95, October 1999,0 8078 2487 9 Show More
by Louis Pérez Jr..
North Carolina, 579 pp., £31.95, October 1999,
“... Cuba. The Capitol look-alike should have been on the cover of On Becoming Cuban by the historian Louis Pérez Jr. It is the thesis of this book that Cuban identity rests on identification with the United States. For Pérez, becoming Cuban means becoming like an American (he prefers to say ‘North American’, though ... ”
