Sunbelt Diaspora: Race, Class, and Latino Politics in Puerto Rican Orlando

by Patricia Silver

Puerto Ricans make up half of Orlando-area Latinos, arriving from Puerto Rico as well as from other long-established diaspora communities to a place where Latino politics has long been about Cubans in Miami. Together with other Latinos from multiple places, Puerto Ricans bring diverse experiences of race and class to this Sunbelt city. Tracing the emergence of the Puerto Rican and Latino presence in Orlando from the 1940s through an ethnographic moment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477320458
• ISBN13: 9781477320457
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"