The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896-1968

by Chanelle Nyree Rose

Offering new insights into Florida's position within the cultural legacy of the South, The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami explores the long fight for civil rights in one of the country's most popular tourist destinations. Chanelle N. Rose examines how the sustained tourism and rapid demographic changes that characterized Miami for much of the twentieth century undermined constructions of blackness and whiteness that remained more firmly entrenched...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807157651
• ISBN13: 9780807157657
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"