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Want to learn more about Miami? Here are some reading recommendations from the @miami_institute community:
"The Color of Wealth in Miami" (2019): A joint publication by the Kirwan Institute at Ohio State, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke, and the Insight Center for Community Economic Development: http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/The-Color-of-Wealth-in-Miami-Metro.pdf
“Rest Ashore: Virtual Roundtable w/ Arlene Dávila, Donette Francis, María Elena Ortiz, & Juana Valdes”
Locus Projects, Virtual Conversation (Oct. 2020)
Locus Projects, Virtual Conversation (Oct. 2020)
Donette Francis and Allison Harris, “Introduction: Looking for Black Miami”: https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.408/
Tera Hunter, “Black Miami to Me”: https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.366/
Allison Harris and Juana Valdes, “‘There’s a Part of Me that Must Remain Truthful to the Story’: An Interview with Juana Valdes”: https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.374/
Kevin Quashie, “Queer. Caribbean. Miami. Boy: A Personal Geography”: https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.367/
Edda Fields-Black, “The Smallness of Identity, Smallness of Blackness”: https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.365/
Marta Gierczyk, "Magic City Killjoys: Women Organizers, Gentrification, and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Little Haiti" https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.409/
Jemima Pierre, “Growing Up Haitian in Black Miami: A Narrative in Three Acts”: https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.376/
Nathan Connolly, “Speculating in History”: https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.364/
Jafari Allen, “Afterword: ‘Miami’s Nappy Edges: Finding Black Miami, Sin Fronteras”: https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.406/
“Historical Roots of Differing Perspectives on Race between Cubans and Americans” Interview with Devyn Spence Benson https://www.davidson.edu/people/devyn-spence-benson
Maria Cristina Garcia, *Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida* (U.of California Press, 1996): https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520211179/havana-usa
Donette Francis, “Miami in the Plays of Tarell Alvin McCraney”: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ec7dfcfbe490266239ec251/t/5fa33fea373a7920444c9f8c/1604534251369/McCraney+Essay.pdf
Alan A. Aja, *Miami’s Forgotten Cubans: Race, Racialization, and the Miami Afro-Cuban Experience* (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016): https://bookshop.org/books/miami-s-forgotten-cubans-race-racialization-and-the-miami-afro-cuban-experience/9781137575234
Michael Bustamante, *Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile* (UNC Press, 2021): https://www.amazon.com/Cuban-Memory-Wars-Retrospective-Envisioning/dp/1469662027/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1600436432&sr=8-1
Christina Abreu, Rhythms of Race: Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960 (UNC Press, 2015): https://uncpress.org/book/9781469620848/rhythms-of-race/
Sharon D. Wright Austin, *The Caribbeanization of Black Politics: Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America* (SUNY Press, 2018): https://www.sunypress.edu/p-6504-the-caribbeanization-of-black-p.aspx
Sharon D. Wright Austin, Richard T. Middleton IV, and Rachel Yon, “The Effect of Racial Group Consciousness on the Political Participation of African Americans and Black Pan-Ethnics in Miami-Dade County, Florida”: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1605005
