Sunbelt diaspora : race, class, and Latino politics in Puerto Rican Orlando / Patricia Silver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silver, Patricia, author.

Series:

Historia USA.

Historia USA

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puerto Ricans--Florida--Orlando--Politics and government.

Puerto Ricans.

Hispanic Americans--Politics and government.

Hispanic Americans.

Orlando (Fla.)--Politics and government.

Orlando (Fla.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 299 pages) : illustration, maps.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Tracing the emergence of the Puerto Rican and Latino presence in Orlando from the 1940s through an ethnographic moment of twenty-first-century electoral redistricting, Sunbelt Diaspora provides a timely prism for viewing how differences of race, class, and place play out in struggles to claim political, social, and economic ground for Latinos"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Intro

List of Maps, Tables, and Charts

Preface: For Orlando Readers

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Race, Class, Place, and Politics in a New Puerto Rican Diaspora

Part I. Puerto Rican Orlando

1. Between Black and White: Geography, Demography, and Political Place

2. Hidden Histories in the New Orlando: Colonial Migrations, Color-Blind Multiculturalism, and Natural Neoliberalism

Part II. Difference and the Incompleteness of Political Community Formation

3. "You Don't Look Puerto Rican": Race, Class, and Memories of Place in Orlando

4. Enough Is Enough: Memory, Political Formations, and Participatory Citizenship

5. "This Building Is Our Island": Seen and Unseen in Orlando

Part III. The Case of Redistricting in Orange County, Florida

6. Divided by Beans: Tensions of Collective Identification

7. Four Districts for Americans: Mapping Community in Orange County

Conclusion: Navigating Ambiguity in the Interests of Community

Epilogue: "Things Will Be Different Now"

Appendix: Oral History Collections and Orange County Board of County Commissioners Proceedings

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-2048-2

1-4773-2047-4

OCLC:

1150190887