2019 Summer Institute for College and University Teachers

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The Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, “José Martí and the Cuban Immigrant Communities of Florida in Cuban Independence and the Dawn of the American Century,” takes place on the beautiful and historic campus of The University of Tampa in downtown Tampa, FL, from June 17 to July 13, 2019. This summer institute has been made possible thanks to a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities and is open to full-time faculty at two-year and four-year colleges and universities in the U.S., and also to non-tenured/non-tenure track faculty and advanced graduate students. First consideration is given to those who have not previously attended an NEH seminar or institute. Our institute will present a novel approach to the study and teaching of the rise of the U.S. as a global hegemonic power in the early 20th century as a consequence of its intervention in Cuba’s War of Independence from the perspective of the Cuban immigrant communities in the U.S., particularly in the unique and vibrant cigar towns of Ybor City (now Tampa, FL) and Key West. It was here that José Martí would find both the inspiration and the followers he would need to bring about his vision of a future Cuban Republic. The close study of this seminal period from the point of view of the working class immigrants who organized, financed, and in many cases fought and died for the patriotic ideal that they helped inspire by their example, will enrich any cross-cultural approach to the teaching of U.S. history, race and ethnicity, Latin American studies, Caribbean/Cuban studies, international relations, cultural studies, Hispanic language and culture, and other disciplines as well.

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