Resources on Miami
In the spirit of learning more about the city— at a crossroads between the Global South and North— which the Institute calls home, we include a list of sources on Miami recommended by the Miami Institute community. This list is updated routinely.
“The Color of Wealth in Miami”
2019 Joint Publication of the Kirwan Institute at Ohio State, the Samuel DuBois Cook Center at Duke, and the Insight Center for Community Economic Development; Primary Investigators: William A. Darity Jr. and Darrick Hamilton
“‘There’s a Part of Me that Must Remain Truthful to the Story’: An Interview with Juana Valdes”
by Allison Harris and Juana Valdes
“Growing Up Haitian in Black Miami: A Narrative in Three Acts”
by Jemima Pierre
“Historical Roots of Differing Perspectives on Race between Cubans and Americans”
Interview with Devyn Spence Benson
Miami’s Forgotten Cubans: Race, Racialization, and the Miami Afro-Cuban Experience (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016)
by Alan A. Aja
“The Effect of Racial Group Consciousness on the Political Participation of African Americans and Black Pan-Ethnics in Miami-Dade County, Florida”
by Sharon D. Wright Austin, Richard T. Middleton IV, and Rachel Yon
“Introduction: Looking for Black Miami”
by Donette Francis and Allison Harris.
“Queer. Caribbean. Miami. Boy: A Personal Geography”
by Kevin Quashie
“Speculating in History”
by Nathan Connolly
The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump (HarperCollins, 2021)
by Geraldo Cadava
Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida (U.of California Press, 1996)
by Maria Cristina Garcia
Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile (UNC Press, 2021)
by Michael Bustamante
The Caribbeanization of Black Politics: Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America (SUNY Press, 2018)
by Sharon D. Wright Austin
“Black Miami to Me”
by Tera Hunter
“The Smallness of Identity, Smallness of Blackness”
by Edda Fields-Black
“Afterword: ‘Miami’s Nappy Edges: Finding Black Miami, Sin Fronteras”
by Jafari Allen
“Miami in the Plays of Tarell Alvin McCraney”
by Donette Francis
Rhythms of Race: Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960 (UNC Press, 2015)
by Christina Abreu
“Rest Ashore: Virtual Roundtable w/ Arlene Dávila, Donette Francis, María Elena Ortiz, & Juana Valdes”
Locus Projects, Virtual Conversation (Oct. 2020)
“Curators Talk— Global Borderless Caribbean XII: Focus Miami”
Little Haiti Cultural Complex (December 4, 2020)