Jorge J. E. Gracia is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His many books include Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity. Lynette M. F. Bosch is Professor of Art History at SUNY College at Geneseo and author of Cuban-American Art in Miami: Exile, Identity and the Neo-Baroque. Isabel Alvarez Borland is Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor of Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross and author of Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona.

Preface
Jorge J. E. Gracia

The Cuban Diaspora: A Brief Chronology

Part I. The Artists
Lynette M. F. Bosch

Identities
Baruj Salinas

A Sense of Place
Humberto Calzada

Art on Art
Emilio Falero

The Juggler
María Brito

If Quebec Were in the Tropics
Mario Bencomo

The Human Condition
Arturo Rodríguez

For the Children
Demi

A Search for Unity
Juan Carlos Llera

Landscapes of the Mind
Alberto Rey

The Artists' Work

Flow Up
Fuji-San
Baruj Salinas

Island in Crisis
Humberto Calzada

Across
Emilio Falero

Self-portrait as a Swan
María Brito

If Quebec Were in the Tropics II 
Mario Bencomo

Untitled
Arturo Rodríguez 

An Artist's First Painting
Demi 

Fear of Flight
Juan Carlos Llera 

Brown Trout-Hosmer Creek
Alberto Rey

Part II. The Writers
Isabel Alvarez Borland

Thinking in Images
Carlos Eire

What Sounds Good Also Rings True
Gustavo Pérez Firmat

A Baratan Experience
Pablo Medina

Writing Without Masks
Virgil Suárez

Escaping the Humors
Roberto Fernández

Crossing the Crest of Forgetting
Ana Menéndez

The Writers' Work

Treinta y Cinco
Carlos Eire

Fire in May
Tristeza de mamá
Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Driving Home
Rites of Spring
Russian Doll
Mirage
The Poet as an Old Man
Pablo Medina 

The Seed Collector
The Trouble with Frogs
Virgil Suárez

Nellie
Roberto Fernández

Travelling Fools
Ana Menéndez

Part III. The Philosophers
Jorge J. E. Gracia

Cuban, Hispanic, and Latina?
Ofelia Schutte

The Search for Identity Outside Miami
Jorge J. E. Gracia

Cuban American or Latin American?
Oscar Martí

Universalism or Particularism?
Ernesto Sosa

The Philosophers' Work

Identities in Tension
Ofelia Schutte
                                     
Ethnic Identity
Jorge J. E. Gracia

Breaking with the Past                              
Oscar Martí

Philosophy, the History of Philosophy, and Science                                       
Ernesto Sosa

Bibliography
About the Editors
Index