- Gebundene Ausgabe: 298 Seiten
- Verlag: University of California Press (September 1993)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0520082176
- ISBN-13: 978-0520082175
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,4 x 15,5 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.100.760 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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A perceptive appreciation of Miami and what makes it tick, from a pair of sociologists who understand that anecdotal evidence can be as illuminating as statistical abstracts. Drawing on demographic data, personal observations, interviews, newspaper articles, and allied sources, Portes (Johns Hopkins Univ.) and Stepick (Florida International Univ.) profile a city in which cultural diversity is a convulsive reality. Noting that Miami has become the Caribbean's de facto capital in the more than three decades since Castro seized Cuba, the authors point out that political events, rather than economic or geographic advantages, have made Miami a world-class entrep“t--a reversal of the way in which America's urban centers usually develop. After providing a brief history of the Sunshine State and its settlement, Portes and Stepick offer detailed human-scale accounts of the immigrant groups that changed a sleepy winter resort into a teeming year-round metropolis with a Hispanic cast. Bourgeois Cubans bent on escaping Castro's Communism were the first to arrive in force. While restructuring their adoptive city's socioeconomic and political institutions, these exiles were joined by less favored compatriots (the so-called Marielitos), Haitians, and Nicaraguans fleeing the Sandinistas. By 1990, 49.2% of greater Miami's population was Latino, up from 4.0% in 1950; by contrast, Anglos (the local name for whites) represented but 30.3% of the total, with blacks (native-born or otherwise) at 19.5%. As the authors make clear, the shift in the ethnic balance of power has not been without serious frictions--but they conclude that, once Castro leaves the stage, assimilation pressures could prove stronger than the ties that now bind and divide Miami's disparate communities. A municipal report that offers clues to what could be in store for other of America's border towns. A fine complement to David Rieff's The Exile (p. 773). (Illustrations) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Occupying a unique place in the cultural imagination of America, Miami is a city that projects fantasies of wealth and excess. This study explores the recent transformation that has taken place as Miami moves from a light-hearted tourist resort to a troubled city of great ethnic diversity.
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Good socioeconomics, but dated
5. März 2007
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City on the Edge is one of the finest books written on the socioeconomic dynamics of Miami and Dade County. The overall history of the city is only lightly treated (and unfortunately, there are few works on the history of South Florida) as the book instead focuses mostly on developments in Miami's recent history, namely from the 1960's forward, as it began its Anglo to Latino "transformation." Be warned, however, that the book is somewhat dated (published in '93 originally, hence 4 stars instead of 5); Miami is a booming, complicated, rapidly evolving city and has changed fairly significantly since then, but the underlying city culture (and it's quirky, problematic socioeconomics) are still there, as analysed by this book. The analysis and overview of the various black groups in Miami in the book was also very revealing.
Miami shuffle....
31. Januar 2011
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This book shows much relevance up until the early 1990s but it also suffers from being dated because Miami is a city in constant shuffle. Change doesn't occur but shuffling of priorities and communities in Miami because the individuals running City and State politics have always been invested in maintaining a similar status quo. White flight occurred in the early 1980s with Miami rebellions of 80, 82 and 89 but the violence of gentrification is missing from any chapters in this book because this phenomenon has been taking place within the last 10 years. It's important to read or re-read Black Miami in the Twentieth Century by local Miami historian Marvin Dunn. There have also been a mass migration of Brazilian, Peruvian, Central American people whose impact on the economy like the Haitian and African-American community has been over looked by major City and State politicians.
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