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Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: Cuban Americans of Green-Wood

In 1960, a young Lisandro Perez came to America from Cuba with his parents. Today a professor of Latin American and Latinx studies at John Jay College, Perez has devoted his career to the study of the Cuban and Cuban American presence in nineteenth-century New York. His book, Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York, explores how Cuban émigrés flocked to the city in search of education and wealth, to evade royal authority, and even to plot a revolution! Many of the individuals whose stories tell this tale are interred at Green-Wood. Perez will join Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman to talk about his wonderful book, which has just been awarded the 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history and received honorable mention at the 2019 CASA Literary Prize for Studies on Latinos in the United States, given by La Casa de las Américas.











When: Wed., Sep. 30, 2020 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Where: Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th St., Brooklyn
718-210-3080
Price: $9/$4 for members
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In 1960, a young Lisandro Perez came to America from Cuba with his parents. Today a professor of Latin American and Latinx studies at John Jay College, Perez has devoted his career to the study of the Cuban and Cuban American presence in nineteenth-century New York. His book, Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York, explores how Cuban émigrés flocked to the city in search of education and wealth, to evade royal authority, and even to plot a revolution! Many of the individuals whose stories tell this tale are interred at Green-Wood. Perez will join Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman to talk about his wonderful book, which has just been awarded the 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history and received honorable mention at the 2019 CASA Literary Prize for Studies on Latinos in the United States, given by La Casa de las Américas.

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