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Item Details
| Title:
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COMING TO MIAMI
A SOCIAL HISTORY |
| By: |
Melanie Shell-Weiss |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£39.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813032962 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813032962 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2009 |
| Series: |
Sunbelt Studies |
| Pages: |
369 |
| Description: |
Miami is the fifth largest urban area in the United States. Originally a small southern town, its population and character have been transformed by successive waves of immigrants. From pineapple groves to Cuban exiles to South Beach night-clubs, this book reveals much about the Magic City's multicultural diversity. |
| Synopsis: |
Miami is the fifth largest urban area in the United States, yet it is a city barely one hundred years old. Originally a small southern town, its population and character have been transformed by successive waves of immigrants.Beginning with the West Indian and Jewish populations who arrived shortly after the city's founding through the Bahamian, Cuban, Haitian, and other Latino groups who immigrated en masse in the second half of the century, Melanie Shell-Weiss skillfully interweaves the experiences of Miami's diverse communities into a compelling whole. She not only examines issues of gender, race, and cultural identity but also pays close attention to labor, economics, and working-class organization and activism, all of which played a role in shaping and reshaping the city into America's premier polyglot.From pineapple groves to Cuban exiles to South Beach night-clubs, this impeccably researched and lucidly written book reveals much about the Magic City's multicultural diversity. |
| Illustrations: |
28 b/w photos, 6 maps |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University Press of Florida |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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