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In February 1962, three years into Fidel Castro's rule of their
Cuban homeland, the Gonzalez family-an auto mechanic, his wife, and
two young children-landed in Miami with a few personal possessions
and two bottles of Cuban rum. As his parents struggled to find
work, eleven-year-old Gerardo struggled to fit in at school, where
a teacher intimidated him and school authorities placed him on a
vocational track. Inspired by a close friend, Gerardo decided to go
to college. He not only graduated but, with hard work and
determination, placed himself on a path through higher education
that brought him to a deanship at the Indiana University School of
Education. In this deeply moving memoir, Gonzalez recounts his
remarkable personal and professional journey. The memoir begins
with Gerardo's childhood in Cuba and recounts the family's
emigration to the United States and struggles to find work and
assimilate, and Gonzalez's upward track through higher education.
It demonstrates the transformative power that access to education
can have on one person's life. Gerardo's journey came full circle
when he returned to Cuba fifty years after he left, no longer the
scared, disheartened refugee but rather proud, educated, and
determined to speak out against those who wished to silence others.
It includes treasured photographs and documents from Gonzalez's
life in Cuba and the US. His is the story of one immigrant
attaining the American Dream, told at a time when the fate of
millions of refugees throughout the world, and Hispanics in the
United States, especially his fellow Cubans, has never been more
uncertain.
In February 1962, three years into Fidel Castro's rule of their
Cuban homeland, the Gonzalez family-an auto mechanic, his wife, and
two young children-landed in Miami with a few personal possessions
and two bottles of Cuban rum. As his parents struggled to find
work, eleven-year-old Gerardo struggled to fit in at school, where
a teacher intimidated him and school authorities placed him on a
vocational track. Inspired by a close friend, Gerardo decided to go
to college. He not only graduated but, with hard work and
determination, placed himself on a path through higher education
that brought him to a deanship at the Indiana University School of
Education. In this deeply moving memoir, Gonzalez recounts his
remarkable personal and professional journey. The memoir begins
with Gerardo's childhood in Cuba and recounts the family's
emigration to the United States and struggles to find work and
assimilate, and Gonzalez's upward track through higher education.
It demonstrates the transformative power that access to education
can have on one person's life. Gerardo's journey came full circle
when he returned to Cuba fifty years after he left, no longer the
scared, disheartened refugee but rather proud, educated, and
determined to speak out against those who wished to silence others.
It includes treasured photographs and documents from Gonzalez's
life in Cuba and the US. His is the story of one immigrant
attaining the American Dream, told at a time when the fate of
millions of refugees throughout the world, and Hispanics in the
United States, especially his fellow Cubans, has never been more
uncertain.
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