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"By skillfully bridging the empirical and the theoretical, she has creted a case study that might well seve as a model for students as well as practitioners of the social sciences. Greenbaum uses the Tampa community to clearly and forcefully illustrate theoretical issues, from the interaction of race, ethnicity, and gender to social and cultural capital formation, with an excellent example of applied anthropology thrown in as well." "a well-written and solid piece of scholarship appropriate for all academic collections." - Choice
--Choice

"an extremely complex yet largely accessible work on the Afro-Cuban community in Tampa, Florida from the late 1800s to the present day." - H-South/H-Net
--H-South/H-Net

"Covering a long sweep of time, this work combines the intimacy of ethnography with the reach of oral and archival history. It offers an innovative analysis of the economics of mutual aid, and the interweaving of an unusual variety of sources. Broad concepts related to the politics and economics of race, gender, and ethnicity, are examined from the vantage of a community that was uniquely positioned in time and space." - Anthropology News
--Anthropology News

"a masterful combination of history, anthropology, cultural theory, and contemporary public policy, of interest to a wide spectrum of academic and general reader audiences." - H-Florida
--H-Florida

" A magnificent Study" ; "Equally effective as a work of scholarship and as a book that tells a powerful and intriguing story."
--Journal of Social History

"A thorough and thoughtful portrait of a people--unified by nationality and color, anchored by a mutual aid society--confronting and surviving life in Tampa. Greenbaum captures it all with a detailed narrative supported by carefully documented notes, sources, interviews, photos, charts, and maps."
--Hispanic Outlook

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