"An evaluation of the Chino-Cubano Community: Havana, Cuba
El Barrio Chino is a community in Havana in which organic Chinese culture varies in prevalence; the number of first generation immigrants, now less than 200, is dwindling, and the Chinese
culture therefore rests its laurels on a Chino-Cuban second generation, that maintains its Chinese roots through an amalgamation of Chinese and Cuban (and often ethnically
ambiguous third party) pride.
El Barrio Chino, I am really talking about one specific street: San Nicholás Street. The neighborhood is small to begin with, consisting of three vertical streets intersected by two cross streets, but San Nicholas is the street around which most of the area’s landmarks are centered: the Chinese school, the community center housing a large number of the city’s first generation immigrants, and the barrio’s most famous restaurant, The Sociedad Chang.
This documentation of San Nicholás St. is not about about diasporic consequences or a population displaced; rather, it is about the newfound community fostered under the umbrella
identity of cubanidad."
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