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Item 2019 Presentation Abstracts(The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa, 2019-06) The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa2019 NEH SUMMER INSTITUTE: “JOSÉ MARTÍ AND THE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES OF FLORIDA IN CUBAN INDEPENDENCE AND THE DAWN OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY” PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS The following abstracts are listed by week in chronological order. They are subject to modification until the date of the Institute. Following each abstract, we have included a list of Required Readings to accompany the presentations. A comprehensive list of these readings is also found under the heading READINGS. All REQUIRED readings will be made available to the Institute participants via electronic delivery or a print reader if preferred. In addition, a copy of the Penguin Classics edition of José Martí’s Selected Writings will be distributed to all participants. All REQUIRED and RECOMMENDED readings will be made available for Institute participants either through electronic delivery or library reserve.Item 2019 Program Overview(The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa, 2019-06) The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of TampaPROGRAM OF STUDY The Institute’s 4-week program of study will be organized according to the three principal elements that make up this extraordinary history. First, participants will come to know the history of the immigrant communities of Ybor City and Key West during the last two decades of the 19th century, their origins, settlement, rapid growth, and the novel forms of civil society they created, blending old world traditions with the new economic and social realities of their adopted nation. All aspects of these communities will be explored, including political activism, labor strife, social organization, and cultural production. Secondly, the Institute will focus on two key aspects of the life and work of José Martí: his role in establishing the Cuban Revolutionary Party among the cigar workers of Tampa and Key West, and his place among the great U.S. chroniclers of the Gilded Age. Special emphasis will be placed on the enormous influence these immigrant communities had on Martí’s formulation of a national identity –Patria–, and on his unique and revealing analysis of U.S. government and society. Thirdly, the Institute will examine the rationale for the U.S. intervention in the struggle for Cuban independence and analyze the far-reaching consequences that the Spanish-American War has had on the global distribution of power, consequences that to this day reverberate through politics, history, culture and economics. During the final week, participants will have ample time to develop their teaching modules and/or research projects while engaging in a series of workshops and discussion panels designed to weave these stories together into an integrated and multidisciplinary portrait.Item 2019 NEH Final Program Schedule(The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa, 2019-06) The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of TampaAcademic Program for the 2019 NEH Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty José Martí and the Immigrant Communities of Florida in Cuban Independence and the Dawn of the American Century.