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"Refugees, Bombs, and Lines of Flight: Revolution and Reaction in Miami's Cold Civil Wars"

Wed, May 27, 12:00 to 1:45pm, TBA

Abstract

Miami is understood as a supplement to the narrative of the Cuban revolution, but its history and cultural production reveal tangles in the circuits and relations of the Caribbean, Latin America and the U.S. South, during the cold war years and the new waves of migration and political change from the Caribbean and Latin America. This paper maps the way that Miami embraced and disavowed, exported and imported, the conspiracies and civil wars of the Caribbean and Latin America and the racial and cultural politics of the United States. It examines how its geographies, capitalized growth, its consumerism, urban geography, its corruption and its open and latent political histories offer an indispensable cultural history for thinking the surplus and afterlives of revolutions, and the violent epochal imaginary of politics in a diasporic and displaced capital.

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