Ethnic inventions: Constructing and deconstructing Miami's culture clash

Pacific Historical Review

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 233-250

  Croucher, Sheila L ^a  

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL RELATIONS; ETHNICITY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; RACIAL IDENTITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032836447     PISSN: 00308684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3641986     Document Type: Article

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3. Saskia Sassen and Alejandro Portes, "Miami: A New Global City?" Contemporary Sociology, 22 (1993), 471-477; Ramon Grosfoguel, "Global Logics in the Carribbean City System: The Case of Miami," in Paul L. Knox and Peter J. Taylor, eds., World Cities in a World-System (Cambridge, England, 1995), 156-170.
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11. Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer, Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s to the 1980s (New York, 1990), 650. Similar claims could be made about the ethnic segregation and cultural cohesion evidenced in and through the remaining pockets of predominantly non-Latin white neighborhoods in Miami - although most of these have been transplanted north to Broward County. For a detailed analysis of Miami's ethnic residential segregation, see Begnino E. Aguirre, Kent P. Schwirian, and Anthony J. La Greca, "The Residential Patterning of Latin American and Other Ethnic Populations in Metropolitan Miami," Latin American Research Review, 25 (1980), 35-63.
12. Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer, Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s to the 1980s (New York, 1990), 650. Similar claims could be made about the ethnic segregation and cultural cohesion evidenced in and through the remaining pockets of predominantly non-Latin white neighborhoods in Miami - although most of these have been transplanted north to Broward County. For a detailed analysis of Miami's ethnic residential segregation, see Begnino E. Aguirre, Kent P. Schwirian, and Anthony J. La Greca, "The Residential Patterning of Latin American and Other Ethnic Populations in Metropolitan Miami," Latin American Research Review, 25 (1980), 35-63.
13. Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick III, City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami (Berkeley, 1993).
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16. Dario Moreno and Nicol Rae, "Ethnicity and Partnership: The Case of the Eighteenth Congressional District in Miami," in Guillermo Grenier and Alex Stepick III, eds., Miami Now! Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Change (Gainesville, Fla., 1992), 186-204; Dario Moreno and Christopher L. Warren, "The Conservative Enclave: Cubans in Florida," in Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Louis Desipio, eds., From Rhetoric to Reality: Latino Politics in the 1988 Election (Boulder, Colo., 1992), 127-146.
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27. Oliver Kerr, "Hispanic Estimates for 1990 in Dade County, Florida," Research Division, Metropolitan Dade County Planning Department, Miami, 1990.
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29. Ibid.
30. Edwin Lahey, "Industrious Exiles Making Good in Miami," Miami Herald, Feb. 21, 1967, p. 14A.
31. Juanita Greene, "Latins Could Muster Voting Power at the Polls," ibid., Nov. 21, 1971, p. 8G.
32. Liz Balmeseda, "Tossing Power With Pride," ibid., Jan. 31, 1981, p. 1C.
33. Ibid.
34. Portes and Stepick, City on the Edge, 30-37.
35. Mark Falcoff, "The Other Cuba," National Review, June 12, 1995, p. 43.
36. There is also evidence that the exile discourse is not dead. In April 1994 hundreds of Cuban immigrants used the Summit in Miami and surrounding publicity to mount a united protest against President Bill Clinton's recent change of U.S. immigration policy - a change that terminated a three-decade-old policy of preferential treatment for Cuban refugees seeking political asylum in the United States. See Clemence Fiagome, "Shaking a Big Fist at Fidel," Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 7, 1994, p. 22.
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39. Raymond A. Mohl, "An Ethnic Boiling Pot: Cubans and Haitians in Miami," Journal of Ethnic Studies, 13 (1986), 51-74; Mohl, "The Settlement of Blacks in South Florida," in Boswell, ed., South Florida, 137.
40. Alex Stepick, "The Refugees Nobody Wants," in Grenier and Stepick, eds., Miami Now!, 57-82.
41. Anonymous interview with author, June 19, 1992, in author's possession.
42. Anonymous interview with author, July 2, 1992, in author's possession.
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55. Croucher, Imagining Miami, 61-101.
56. Portes and Stepick, City on the Edge, 43.