People & Cultures • Audio
A wave of immigration, beginning with Cuban refugees in 1959, swept over Florida in the last half of the 20th century. Listen to how immigrants from the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia contributed to the culture of Florida in these programs from the FHC radio archives.
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Alex Stepick—New Issues in Florida Immigration
Alex Stepick is director of the Immigration and Ethnicity Institute at Florida International Univers ...read more
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Alex Stepick—The Haitians
A third of the nearly one million Haitian immigrants living in the United States today live in South ...read more
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Cuban Social Clubs Reunited
Cuban Social Clubs formed to provide support for immigrants with limited opportunities, often includ ...read more
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Ferdie Pacheco’s Ybor City
Physician/artist Ferdie Pacheco, often called Ybor City’s most famous son, talks about the significa ...read more
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Florida After WWII
On the eve of World War II, Florida was still an isolated, backward southern state with a population ...read more
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Floridians Living on the Hyphen
Nearly every immigrant group has wrestled with the problem of maintaining cultural identity in a new ...read more
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Islam In Florida
According to the Department of State, followers of Islam are expected to become the second-largest r ...read more
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Junkanoo in Florida
Jan DeCosmo, director of the Center for Caribbean Culture at Florida A&M University, describes the B ...read more
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Martin Zagbo—An African in Central Florida
Orlando is home to some of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the country. African artist, choreog ...read more
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Mirta Ojito—Remembering the Boatlift
Between April and September 1980, thousands of Cuban refugees left Mariel Harbor bound for South Flo ...read more
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New Communities of Central Florida
Orlando is recognized as one of Florida’s most diverse ethnic communities. Maria Padilla, former His ...read more
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Pedro Pan: New Perspective
It was called Operation Pedro Pan, a nickname given by the press to a massive airlift that brought m ...read more
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The Sicilians in Florida
After the Civil War, southern plantation and factory owners, fearing that newly freed blacks were be ...read more
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