A01=Julio Capo Jr.
Author_Julio Capo Jr.
Caribbean history
Caribbean-U.S. relations
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Cuba-U.S. relations
cultural history
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Florida history
gender
history of Cuba
History of Miami
history of migration and immigration
history of The Bahamas
imperialism
inter- and intra-ethnic relations
intersectional analysis
Jim Crow
queer history
queer studies
race relations
sexuality
sexuality of migration
social history
tourism history
transnational history
U.S. empire
U.S. South
urban boosterism
urban history
Product details
- ISBN 9781469635200
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 154 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 20 Nov 2017
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami's queer past from its 1896 founding through World War II, Capo shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own.
Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capo unearths the forgotten history of ""fairyland,"" a marketing term crafted by boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean - particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti - to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history. Recovering the world of Miami's old saloons, brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and cruising sites, Capo makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness.
Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capo unearths the forgotten history of ""fairyland,"" a marketing term crafted by boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean - particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti - to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history. Recovering the world of Miami's old saloons, brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and cruising sites, Capo makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness.
Julio Capo Jr is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
