The Racial Politics of Division : Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami / Monika Gosin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gosin, Monika, Author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic conflict--Florida--Miami.

Ethnic conflict.

Minorities--Florida--Miami--Social conditions.

Minorities.

Miami (Fla.)--Race relations.

Miami (Fla.).

Miami (Fla.)--Ethnic relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Racial Politics of Division deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in local Miami media between African Americans, "white" Cubans, and "black" Cubans during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift and the 1994 Balsero Crisis. Monika Gosin challenges exclusionary arguments pitting these groups against one another and depicts instead the nuanced ways in which identities have been constructed, negotiated, rejected, and reclaimed in the context of Miami's historical multiethnic tensions. Focusing on ideas of "legitimacy," Gosin argues that dominant race-making ideologies of the white establishment regarding "worthy citizenship" and national belonging shape inter-minority conflict as groups negotiate their precarious positioning within the nation. Rejecting oversimplified and divisive racial politics, The Racial Politics of Division portrays the lived experiences of African Americans, white Cubans, and Afro-Cubans as disrupters in the binary frames of worth-citizenship narratives. Foregrounding the oft-neglected voices of Afro-Cubans, Gosin posits new narratives regarding racial positioning and notions of solidarity in Miami. By looking back to interethnic conflict that foreshadowed current demographic and social trends, she provides us with lessons for current debates surrounding immigration, interethnic relations, and national belonging. Gosin also shows us that despite these new demographic realities, white racial power continues to reproduce itself by requiring complicity of racialized groups in exchange for a tenuous claim on US citizenship.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Race Making: Miami and the Nation

2. Marielitos, the Criminalization of Blackness, and Constructions of Worthy Citizenship

3. And Justice for All?: Immigration and African American Solidarity

4. Framing the Balsero Crisis: The Racial and Moral Politics of Suffering

5. Afro-Cuban Encounters at the Intersections of Blackness and Latinidad

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3824-0

1-5017-3825-9

OCLC:

1057244229