Emilio Cueto
LAWYER, COLLECTOR & INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR.
Havana, 1944. Emilio Cueto has lived in the United States since 1961.
Emilio is the author of Mialhe’s Colonial Cuba (1992), Cuba in Old Maps (1999), Illustrating Cuba’s Flora and Fauna (2002), La Cuba Pintoresca de Frédéric Mialhe (Catauro 2010 award), La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre en el Alma del Pueblo Cubano (2014), Camagüey en la música (Puerta de Papel 2015 award), and Las litografias santiagueras del Departamento Oriental de la Isla de Cuba (2015).
Cueto’s works have appeared in the books Narrativa y libertad: cuentos Cubanos de la diáspora (Julio E. Hernández-Miyares, ed., 1996), Paseo Pintoresco por la Isla de Cuba (1999), and Madrid habanece. Cuba y España en el punto de mira transatlántico (Ángel Esteban, ed., 2011), as well as in the periodical publications Cuadernos de historia principeña, Cuadernos de italianística cubana, Cuban Studies, Diario Las Américas, Espacio Laical, Herencia, Journal of Cuban Philately, El Nuevo Herald, Opus Habana, Palabra Nueva, The Portolan, Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, and Siempreviva. In 1989, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Cuban Studies, Cueto premiered his one-man show La Cuba de Antier at Harvard University.
Since 2008, Emilio has collaborated with Florida International University (Miami) in organizing concerts of Cuba-related music. He is a founding member of the Institute for Cuban Studies, member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, member of the National Union of Historians of Cuba and honorary member of the José Martí National Library of Cuba. In 2016 St. Thomas University in Miami awarded him an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Humane Letters and in 2017 he received the Monsignor Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Award given by the Cultural Section of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba.
Print copies of his Inspired by Cuba! Series are available for purchase at University of Florida Press.
EMILIO CUETO other titles
- Inspired by Cuba. Cuba on the Labels: A Selection of Cuba-Themed Cigar Labels Printed Outside of Cuba (2024)
- Inspired by Cuba. Delivering Cuba Through the Mail: Cuba’s Presence in Non-Cuban Postage Stamps and Envelopes (2021)
- Inspired by Cuba. A Survey of Cuba-Themed Ceramics (2019)
- Santiago de Cuba en el Grabado : Siglos XVII-XIX (2019)
- La Habana También se Fuma/Havana is for Smokers (2019)
- Cuba en USA (2018)
- Matanzas en la Mano (2018)
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James Haskins
uf English professor, social activist, award-winning author.
Educator and an award-winning author of over 100 adult and children’s books. His book, “The Cotton Club,” was made into a major film in 1984.
James was born in Alabama in 1940 and schooled in Boston, Washington D.C., New Mexico, and his home state. He grew up in a close-knit and loving community of parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins in a compound of eight houses in the small town of Demopolis. Though Haskins was raised in “the heart of a particular area that did not subjugate Blacks as much as the people of other counties” (Hatch, 78), he attended a segregated school with limited financial and academic resources. It was fortunate that he had creative adults to foster in him a love of learning, including a storytelling aunt and a group of dedicated teachers who supplemented the school curriculum with their own books.
In 1952, Julia and Henry Haskins separated, and Julia took her twelve-year old son to live with family in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Haskins was one of twenty-five black students that attended the academically prestigious Boston Latin School, and often had Harvard professor moonlighting as his teachers. While the schools embraced diversity, the neighborhoods were segregated by various ethnic groups. After graduating high school, Haskins could have stayed in the northeast to attend Brandeis University with a scholarship, but followed his mother’s wishes and tradition, returning to Alabama to attend Alabama State College (ASU) in Montgomery around 1959, during the tumultuous time of civil rights protests and activism. Rosa Parks later said in her book co-authored with Haskins that she refused to give up her seat for a white passenger because she “was tired of giving in to white people.” Haskins and his fellow students at ASU participated in the sit-ins and demonstrations and was eventually expelled for his participation. He was offered a scholarship at Georgetown through the Montgomery Improvement Assocation. After completing a bachelor of science degree in psychology, Haskins returned to ASU and earned a bachelor of arts degree in history. Haskins also earned a master’s degree in social psychology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
You can learn more from the James Haskins Collection at UF Smathers Libraries. The collection includes over 3,000 books, manuscripts, and papers. Most of these items are accessible in the second-floor Reading Room of the Special and Area Studies Collections, which is located in Smathers Library (Library East).
Print copies of Fighting Shirley Chisholm is available for purchase through UF Press.
Other open access Haskins titles recently re-released by Kathy Haskins and LP@UF are available for free through UF Digital Collections.
Fighting Shirley Chisholm – Launched 8/2024
The Cotton Club – Launched 8/2024
Barbara Jordan – Launched 8/2024
Scott Joplin: The Man Who Made Ragtime – Launched 8/2024
