Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami

This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and from Latin America.

List of contents

Introduction: Migration Dreams: Painted Streets 1. Wall of Resistance 2. Wynwood 3. Buena Vista 4. Little Haiti 5. Miami's "Uneven Geographies" Conclusion

About the author

Jana Evans Braziel is Western College Endowed Professor in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University.

Summary

This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and from Latin America.

Product details

• Authors: Jana Evans Braziel, Jana Evans (Miami University Braziel, Braziel Jana Evans
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781032543932
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254393-2
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Miami, Florida, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ART / American / General, Painting & paintings, Urban communities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Murals and wall paintings, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity