Mandela in Miami: The Globalization of Ethnicity in an American City

Argues that the treatment of ethnicity as an independent variable in analyses of social and political relations must be modified to account for the ways in which ethnicity is, simultaneously, a dependent variable. Analyzes events surrounding the visit of Nelson Mandela to Miami in June 1990 as a cas...

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Published inJournal of developing societies Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 186 - 202
Main Author Croucher, Sheila L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Leiden Brill 1994
Subjects
Ethnic Relations
Ethnicity
Globalization
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Miami
Political Factors
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Summary:Argues that the treatment of ethnicity as an independent variable in analyses of social and political relations must be modified to account for the ways in which ethnicity is, simultaneously, a dependent variable. Analyzes events surrounding the visit of Nelson Mandela to Miami in June 1990 as a case demonstrating the emerging and continuous construction of ethnic identity and ethnic group relations-in this case, concerning Black, Cuban and Jewish communities. (Original abstract-amended)
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ISSN:0169-796X