Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories

Reboque

This documentary traces the tangled paths and multifaceted identity of a black Cuban family in the Bronx. The subjects of this film experienced firsthand some of the great historical events of the 20th century – they saw Castro’s arrival in Havana and had their neighborhood bombed in the Bay of Pigs invasion; one son fought in Vietnam and a daughter marched against it. Both working-class and professional, black and Latino, foreign and native, Spanish-speaking and English-speaking, the family is shown in the constant process of negotiating its identity. On their arrival in Miami, the family immediately encountered racial segregation, and as children in a mixed Puerto Rican/African-American neighborhood in the Bronx, they were forced by their playmates to choose their identity: “Are you black or Spanish?” Even the family’s roots in Cuba are complex - the grandfather was the son of Jamaican immigrants to Cuba – and their relation to the Cuban Revolution is ambiguous.

Gênero: Documentário

Fundida: Pablo Elliot Foster

Equipe técnica: Pam Sporn (Director), Diana-Elena Matsoukas (Associate Producer), Pam Sporn (Producer), Pam Sporn (Camera Operator), Rafael Parra (Editor)

País: United States of America, Cuba

Tempo de execução: 57 minutos

Qualidade: HD

Lançamento: 2000

imdb rating 10

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