To tell a Black story of Miami /

How portrayals of anti-Blackness in literature and film challenge myths about South Florida history and culture In this book, Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city's material realities to challenge the image of South Florida as a diverse cosm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McInnis, Tatiana Danielle (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2022].
Subjects:	Black people in literature. African Americans in literature. Black people > Florida > Miami > Social conditions. African Americans > Florida > Miami > Social conditions. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies. Miami (Fla.) > Race relations.

Table of Contents:

To Tell a Black Story of Miami: Civil Rights and the Reverberations of Black Floridian History in Freedom in The Family
The Anti-Haitian Hydra: Remapping Haitian Spaces in Miami
Becoming Whiteness, Rejecting Blackness: Genre, Castro, and Transnational Identity in Carlos Moore's PichoÌ¹n and Carlos Eire's Learning to Die in Miami
Who Speaks for Miami?: The White Lens in the Tropical Metropole
Dawg Fight in the Moonlight: Black Masculinity in Miami.