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To Tell a Black Story of Miami (Hardcover)
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To Tell a Black Story of Miami (Hardcover)
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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 cosmopolitan paradise. McInnis
discusses how this favorable "melting pot" narrative depends on the
obfuscation of racialized violence against people of African
descent. Analyzing novels, short stories, and memoirs by Edwidge
Danticat, M.J. Fievre, Carlos Moore, Carlos Eire, Patricia Stephens
Due, and Tananarive Due, as well as films such as Dawg Fight and
Moonlight, McInnis demonstrates how these creations push back
against erasure by representing the experiences of Black Americans
and immigrants from Caribbean nations. McInnis considers portrayals
of state-sanctioned oppression, residential segregation, violent
detention of emigres, and increasing wealth gaps and concludes that
celebrations of Miami's diversity disguise the pervasive, adaptive
nature of white supremacy and anti-Blackness. To Tell a Black Story
of Miami offers a model of how to use literature as a primary
archive in urban studies. It draws attention to the similarities
and divergences between Miami's Black diasporic communities, a
historically underrepresented demographic in popular and scholarly
awareness of the city. Increasing understanding of Miami's
political, social, and economic inequities, this book brings
greater nuance to traditional narratives of exceptionalism in
cities and regions. Publication of this work made possible by a
Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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