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Does Race Matter Among Cuban Immigrants? An Analysis of the Racial Characteristics of Recent Cuban Immigrants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2002

BENIGNO E. AGUIRRE  and
EDUARDO BONILLA SILVA
BENIGNO E. AGUIRRE
Affiliation:
Benigno E. Aguirre is a Professor in the Disaster Research Center of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is associate professor of sociology at Texas A&M University.
EDUARDO BONILLA SILVA
Affiliation:
Benigno E. Aguirre is a Professor in the Disaster Research Center of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is associate professor of sociology at Texas A&M University.
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Abstract

Information on Cuban immigrants from the recent ‘Measuring Cuban Opinion Project’ survey is used to determine the extent to which race matters. We use multivariate binomial logistic regression models to determine if race can be predicted by key demographic and economic characteristics of the respondents, their use of mass media outlets in Cuba, their evaluation of and integration to the Cuban state and their participation in the dissidence in the island. The conclusion is reached that race cannot be predicted because these immigrants are, in general terms, very similar. However, some racial differences in mode of immigration and likelihood of immigration were found.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , May 2002 , pp. 311 - 324
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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