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.
| ISBN: | 9781032547831 |
| Publication date: | 29th September 2025 |
| Author: | Jana Evans Braziel |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 214 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies |
| Genres: |
The arts: general topics Popular culture Urban communities Ethnic studies Sociology Regional / International studies History |
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.
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami features in the following genres: The arts: general topics, Popular culture, Urban communities, Ethnic studies, Sociology, Regional / International studies, History
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami is available in Paperback, Hardback
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami was written by Jana Evans Braziel and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami has 214 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies series
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