City on the Edge Miami

City on the Edge Miami

City on the Edge Miami

The first publication dedicated to the annals of African Americans in south Florida and their key function in the development and development of Miami, Black Miami in the Twentieth Century finds their triumphs, drudgery, horrors, and bravery throughout the first 100 years of the city's history. Firsthand anecdotes and over 130 photos, numerous of them not ever released before, convey to life the pleased heritage of Miami's very dark community.

Challenging an academic financial idea that the development of a town is ruled by financial and geographic imperatives, sociology lecturers Portes (Johns Hopkins) and Stepick (Florida International) display that Miami is the creation of "chance and one-by-one wills." Having not anything in specific to offer except sun and ocean, Miami appeared destined to be a tourist and retirement haven until Carribean government turned it into a dynamic worldwide town and what the authors call the "nation's first full-fledged trial in bicultural dwelling in the up to designated day era." They present oddly wealthy annals of the town from Ponce de Leon to the present, but the aim is squarely on the migrations of Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in the 1970s and 1980s, and on the consequences of their ascendancy on the established community of Anglos, Native Americans and African Americans. Much of the authors' highly readable material is drawn from investigations financed by the Ford Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation.

A perceptive admiration of Miami and what makes it tick, from a two of sociologists who realise that anecdotal clues can be as lighting as statistical abstracts. Drawing on demographic facts and numbers, individual facts, meetings, bulletin items, and akin causes, Portes (Johns Hopkins Univ.) and Stepick (Florida International Univ.) profile a town in ...