Miami has long captured the world's attention in provocative ways. During the 1980s, a series of violent racial disturbances focused national and international attention there as analysts and observers scrambled to explain the demise of the -Magic City.- What has emerged is a popular image of Miami as an urban area in which three distinct ethnic groups- Hispanics, Blacks, and Anglos- are pitted against one another in a battle for limited political, economic, and social resources.
Sheila L. Croucher uses Miami as a laboratory in which to explore the social and political construction...
Miami has long captured the world's attention in provocative ways. During the 1980s, a series of violent racial disturbances focused national and i...
