Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami

<p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history urban studies American studies and Latin American/Caribbean studies.</p>