The racial politics of boosterism, Black protest, and Jim Crow tourism -- African American boosters, Bahamian transnationals, and Garveyites -- Black protest in New Deal South Florida's magic city -- Post-World War II protest, northern migration, and the illusion of moderation -- Black activism in a Jim Crow tourist city -- America's paradise exposed: Cold War hysteria and the emergence of a Black-Jewish alliance -- The transformation of the Miami NAACP -- Civil rights liberalism and Black power in America's burgeoning tri-ethnic city -- Governor LeRoy Collins, the politics of gradualism, and school desegregation in Dade County -- The Latinization of Miami and the modern civil rights movement -- The "mayor of the Americas" and interracial cooperation -- Cuban exiles, Black power, and an emerging new racial order -- Epilogue.
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