Latino Orlando

Suburban Transformation and Racial Conflict
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-8130-8025-3
Verlag: University Press of Florida

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Southern Dissent

Inside the experiences of immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean

Latino Orlando portrays the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who have come to the Orlando metropolitan area from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin American countries. While much research on immigration focuses on urban destinations, Simone Delerme delves into a middle- and upper-class suburban context, highlighting the profound demographic and cultural transformation of an overlooked immigrant hub.

Drawing on interviews, observations, fieldwork, census data, and traditional and new media, Delerme reveals the important role of real estate developers in attracting Puerto Ricans—some of the first Spanish-speaking immigrants in the region—to Central Florida in the 1970s. She traces how language became a way of racializing and segregating Latino communities, leading to the growth of suburban ethnic enclaves. She documents not only the tensions between Latinos and non-Latinos, but also the class-based distinctions that cause dissent within the Latino population. Arguing that Latino migrants are complicating racial categorizations and challenging the deep-rooted Black-white binary that has long prevailed in the American South, Latino Orlando breaks down stereotypes of neighborhood decline and urban poverty and illustrates the diversity of Latinos in the region.

A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delerme, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: New Destinations
- Buenaventura Lakes
- Latinization, Landscapes, and Soundscapes
- The Fractured American Dream
- Social Class Distinctions and the Latino Elite
- The Encargado System
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Simone Delerme is the McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi.