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Americas Society/Council of the Americas
and the World Policy Institute
present a book launch and discussion on

The Portable Island:
Cuban Diaspora Views
on Integration and U.S. Policy

Thursday, May 28, 2009
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Click here for Audio, click here for Summary of the event.

One of six Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, the impact of departure can be wrenching.

How do Cubans in the United States confront their condition as an uprooted people? And how do Cubans at home view the impact of exodus and the possibility of return? How will the Obama administration's softening of US policy on family members' travel and remittances to Cuba affect this dynamic?

Join authors and editors of The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World, which gathers some of the most daring Cuban writers, poets, artists, and thinkers living inside and outside Cuba at a crucial time in history and political change.

Panelists

Editors of The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World

Lucía M. Suárez, Associate Professor of Spanish, Amherst College, Amherst MA

Ruth Behar, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Discussants

Anthony DePalma, Writer-in-Residence, Seton Hall University

Christopher Sabatini, Senior Director of Policy, AS/COA; Editor-in-Chief, Americas Quarterly

With introduction by Michele Wucker, Executive Director, World Policy Institute.

When:

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Registration: 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Book Discussion and Reception: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Where:

Americas Society/Council of the Americas
680 Park Avenue (at 68th Street)
New York 10065

Cost and RSVP:

$5 for WPI, AS and COA Members

$10 for Non-members

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