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"Integrates Miami's story into the larger picture of U.S. immigration and the histories of the American South, the Caribbean and Latin America."
--CubaNews

"A deeply researched book of great substance. It is not a traditional history of twentieth-century Miami, but a focused study of new peoples adjusting to life and creating new lives in a strange and different place. Its strength lies in its concentration on migration, race, ethnicity, gender, and work, subjects that will appeal to readers and scholars in many different fields."
--The Americas

"Adds to our understanding of Miami's past and present."
--Journal of American History

"Shell-Weiss provides an effective framework to understand the transformation of Miami into a trans-Caribbean city. Well written and researched."
--CHOICE

"Shell-Weiss makes a compelling case for including Miami in any course on the New South, urban history, race relations, regional history, and even borderlands history. Long viewed as an outlier, Miami is at once a very "southern," American, and global city."
--American Historical Review

"An important book, useful for scholars and the general public who want to place Miami's complex social mosaic into a meaningful perspective."
--Journal of American Ethnic History

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