Becoming American It’s Not a One-Way Street

On Thanksgiving Day 1999, a six-year-old boy, Elián González, was found floating on an inner tube three miles off the Florida coast. He was reportedly surrounded by dolphins and, more surprisingly, in spite of being in the water for three days, he was not sunburned at all. The U. S. Coast Guard spot...

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Published inThis Land Is Our Land p. 1
Main Authors Dunn, Marvin, Stepick, Alex, Grenier, Guillermo, Castro, Max
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of California Press 26.04.2003
Edition1
Subjects
Acculturation
African Americans
American minorities
American studies
Anthropology
Behavioral sciences
Censuses
Cities
Communities
Cuban Americans
Cultural assimilation
Ethnic groups
Ethnic studies
Ethnography
Ethnology
Government
Government officials
Hispanics
Human behavior
Human geography
Human societies
Immigration & emigration
Mayors
Metropolitan areas
Migrant communities
Migration, immigration & emigration
Political geography
Political science
Population studies
Social behavior
Social dynamics
Social groups
Social interaction
Social sciences
Socialization
Sociology
White American culture
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Summary:On Thanksgiving Day 1999, a six-year-old boy, Elián González, was found floating on an inner tube three miles off the Florida coast. He was reportedly surrounded by dolphins and, more surprisingly, in spite of being in the water for three days, he was not sunburned at all. The U. S. Coast Guard spotted the boy, along with the two other survivors of a vessel that had been carrying fourteen passengers from Cuba. The other eleven, including the boy’s mother, had apparently drowned. The Coast Guard immediately transferred Elián to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. The two other survivors were rescued after
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