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People & Cultures


Café Cubano sign, Miami, 1980.

Puerto Rican day laborers pick tomatoes, Delray Beach, 1960.

People & Cultures • Books & Film

Anthropologists, historians, and other scholars contribute to the expanding list of books exploring the demographic shift experienced by Florida in the past half century, and the impact of Caribbean, Latin America, African, and Asian culture on our state.

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Cross Creek Cross Creek
Mary Steenburgen stars in this adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s classic novel about her expe ...read more
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Florida City Florida City
When a young Japanese woman is found murdered outside a small Florida town in December of 1941, hard ...read more
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Florida’s Megatrends: Critical Issues in Florida Florida’s Megatrends: Critical Issues in Florida
Florida began the 20th century as the least-populated of the southern states, with a rural, agricult ...read more
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Harvest of Shame Harvest of Shame
This landmark 1960 “CBS Reports” documentary exposed the harsh living conditions of America’s migran ...read more
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Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959—1994 Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959—1994
In the years since Fidel Castro came to power, the migration of nearly a million Cubans to the Unite ...read more
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Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida
For almost a century and a half, Florida’s land and water endured developers who had little use for ...read more
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Miami Now!: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Change Miami Now!: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Change
Instead of an ethnic hue dictated by the familiar views and prejudices of white Protestants, Miami h ...read more
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Multicultural Reflections on "Race and Change" Multicultural Reflections on "Race and Change"
Few places in the United States provide the gold mine of diversity found in South Florida, and what ...read more
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