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City on the edge : the transformation of Miami / Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Portes, Alejandro, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities.
- Miami (Fla.)--Race relations.
- Miami (Fla.).
- Miami (Fla.)--Ethnic relations.
- Miami (Fla.)--Social conditions.
- Minorities--Florida--Miami.
- Florida--Miami.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994]
- Summary:
- 'America's Riviera, ' projecting fantasies of wealth and excess, Miami occupies a unique place in our national imagination. This thin strip of land between jungle and reef has become the nation's foremost experiment in multicultural living.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 0520089324
- 9780520089327
- OCLC:
- 37779218
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