The Racial Politics of Division
Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19902108 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Monika Gosin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 276 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Racial Politics of Division (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781501738258 |
| OpenAlex | W2944819107 |
| Open Library | OL33741821M |
| ISBN | 9781501738258 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
The 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 narratives. Foregrounding the oft-neglected voices of Afro-Cubans, Gosin posits new narratives regarding racial positioning and notions of solidarity in Miami. By looking back to interethnic conflict that foreshadowed current demographic and social trends, she provides us with lessons for current debates surrounding immigration, interethnic relations, and national belonging. Gosin also shows us that despite these new demographic realities, white racial power continues to reproduce itself by requiring complicity of racialized groups in exchange for a tenuous claim on US citizenship
Arithmetic · Division (mathematics) · Legitimacy · Miami · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Geology · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Mathematics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society · Ethnic conflict · ethnic relations · Minorities · race relations · Social conditions · united states
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |