@estherlallenSugar Cigars and Revolution: A Conversation with Lisandro Pérez
Cullman Center, New York Public Library Margaret Lieber Bergman Forum, 42nd St. & 5th Ave., New York, NY, United StatesLisandro Pérez and Esther Allen talk about Pérez's recent book, Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York. A hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became the largest community of Latin Americans in the 19th-Century Northeast United States. Pérez traces the formation of this community and how it was…
