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Miami's Forgotten Cubans: Race, Racialization, and the Miami Afro-Cuban Experience

Miami's Forgotten Cubans: Race, Racialization, and the Miami Afro-Cuban Experience

Aja, Alan A.

Hardcover

Series: Afro-Latin@ Diasporas

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1137575239
ISBN13: 9781137575234
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Aug 31 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.63
Language: English

This book explores the reception experiences of post-1958 Afro-Cubans in South Florida in relation to their similarly situated white Cuban compatriots. Utilizing interviews, ethnographic observations, and applying Census data analyses, Aja begins not with the more socially diverse 1980 Mariel boatlift, but earlier, documenting that a small number of middle-class Afro-Cuban exiles defied predominant settlement patterns in the 1960 and 70s, attempting to immerse themselves in the newly formed but ultimately racially exclusive ethnic enclave. Confronting a local Miami Cuban white wall and anti-black Southern racism subsumed within an intra-group success myth that equally holds Cubans and other Latin Americans hail from racial democracies, black Cubans immigrants and their children, including subsequent waves of arrival and return-migrants, found themselves negotiating the boundaries of being both black and Latino in the United States.

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