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Title This land is our land : immigrants and power in Miami / Alex Stepick [and others]
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 192 pages)
Contents Becoming American : it's not a one-way street -- Competing elites : Cuban power, Anglo conversion, and frustrated African Americans -- Working in the USA : ethnic segregation and bureaucratizing interaction -- Just comes and cover-ups : African Americans and Haitians in high school -- Making it work : interaction, power, and accommodation in inter-ethnic relations
Summary Drawing from in-depth fieldwork in the city and looking closely at events such as the Elian Gonzalez case, this text examines interactions between immigrants and established Americans in Miami to address fundamental questions of American identity and multiculturalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index
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Subject Immigrants -- Florida -- Miami -- Social conditions
Minorities -- Florida -- Miami -- Social conditions
Cuban Americans -- Florida -- Miami -- Social conditions
Elite (Social sciences) -- Florida -- Miami
Power (Social sciences) -- Florida -- Miami
Ethnic conflict -- Florida -- Miami
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Cuban Americans -- Social conditions
Economic history
Elite (Social sciences)
Ethnic conflict
Ethnic relations
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Minorities -- Social conditions
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
SUBJECT Miami (Fla.) -- Ethnic relations
Miami (Fla.) -- Politics and government
Miami (Fla.) -- Economic conditions
Subject Florida -- Miami
Form Electronic book
Author Stepick, Alex
LC no. 2021696337
ISBN 9780520936461
0520936469
1417525452
9781417525454
9780520233973
0520233972
9780520233980
0520233980
1597349526
9781597349529