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Book SynopsisThe 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 n
Trade Review
The Racial Politics of Division makes an important contribution to social identity research related to race, ethnicity, and immigration.
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The Racial Politics of Division is a strong new addition to the field of race, ethnicity, and immigration; U.S. Latin(x) population studies; and Black studies. Race scholars will benefit from considering how Afro-Cuban racialization experiences challenge cultural ideals about the meaning and function of race. A broad audience will also find the author's use of news artifacts and interviews engaging and authoritative, making this ideal for classroom use.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
