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 Latin America.
Jana Evans Braziel argues that Caribbean and Latinx street artists define and visually mark the city of Miami as a diasporic, transnational urban space. These artists also help define Miami as a cosmopolitan city, yet one that is also a distinctly Caribbean and Latinx urban space, and simultaneously resist but also (at times reluctantly) participate in the forces of gentrification and urban re/development, particularly through the myriad and complex ways in which street art contributes to city branding and art tourism.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, urban studies, American studies, and Latin American/Caribbean studies.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jana Evans (Miami University Braziel, Braziel Jana Evans
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032547831
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254783-1
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Sociology, Popular Culture, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, ART / Graffiti & Street Art, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, The Americas, Urban communities, Hispanic & Latino Studies, The arts: general topics, Urban communities / city life, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity