LISANDRO PÉREZ ON THE HOUSE ON G STREET: A CUBAN FAMILY SAGA – MEMOIR

LISANDRO PÉREZ is a professor in the department of Latin American and Latinx studies at John Jay College, City University of New York. He is the author of Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press); his latest book is The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga (NYU Press).

MICHAEL J. BUSTAMANTE, PH.D., is an associate professor of history and the Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American studies at the University of Miami. He is the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile (University of North Carolina Press), published in 2021. With Jennifer Lambe of Brown University, he is the co-editor of The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959 – 1980 (Duke University Press), published in 2019. At UM, Bustamante serves as the director of academic programs at the Cuban Heritage Collection, the largest archival repository dedicated to Cuban materials outside of the island and the largest collection of materials on the Cuban diaspora in the world. In that capacity, he oversees fellowship and grant competitions, conferences, and other academic initiatives designed to activate the collection for scholarship and public conversations in the field of Cuban studies. He simultaneously directs the undergraduate program in Cuban studies at the College of Arts and Sciences and its affiliated academic minor. Bustamante's scholarly writing has appeared in the Journal of American Ethnic History, Latino Studies, Cuban Studies, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. His writing on contemporary Cuban affairs has been featured in Foreign Affairs, NACLA Report on the Americas, Slate, the Financial Times, and The Washington Post, among other publications. He is co-editor of the journal Cuban Studies.

RUTH BEHAR is a Cuban-born anthropologist and writer of books for young people. She won the Pura Belpré Award for her middle-grade novel Lucky Broken Girl (Nancy Paulsen Books) and her novel Letters from Cuba (Nancy Paulsen Books) was selected for Kirkus Reviews’ list of best historical fiction. Her picture book, Tía Fortuna’s New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey (Knopf Books for Young Readers), is on Kirkus’ and School Library Journal’s best book lists. With her son, Gabriel Frye-Behar, Behar co-authored Pepita Meets Bebita (Knopf Books for Young Readers), a picture book about the joys of family. Her new novel, Across So Many Seas (Nancy Paulsen Books), has been described by Sandra Cisneros as a book that “sings with poetry and history and story all at once.” The first Latina to win a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Behar teaches at the University of Michigan.