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Article: Imagining Miami.(Review) (book reviews)
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- Southern Cultures
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- September 22, 1999
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Imagining Miami Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World By Sheila L. Croucher University Press of Virginia, 1997 235 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $15.00
Describing and explaining the transformation of modern Miami has become an academic and literary cottage industry. During the past fifteen years, dozens of historians, sociologists, novelists, journalists, and cultural critics have tried to make sense of the burgeoning international city that now stretches from the eastern border of the Everglades to the shores of Biscayne Bay. Like the city itself, the recent literature on Miami is an uneven but fascinating mix of competing visions and claims, ranging from serious ...