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Monika Gosin
William & Mary, Sociology and Africana
Studies
Primary research interests include: African American and Latinx relations;
immigrant incorporation into US society; Afro Cuban and other Afro Latinx
immigration experiences in the United States. Gosin has also published on
raced and gendered media representations of Asian and Black populations
within the United States. She is the author of The Politics of Racial
Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami
(Cornell University Press, 2019). Her book deconstructs antagonistic
discourses that circulated in local Miami media between African Americans,
"white" Cubans, and "black" Cubans during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift and the
1994 Balsero Crisis.
Challenging exclusionary arguments pitting these
groups against one another, the book depicts the nuanced ways in which
identities have been constructed, negotiated, rejected, and reclaimed in
the context of Miami's historical multiethnic tensions. Positing new
narratives regarding racial positioning and notions of solidarity in
Miami, the book examines historical Miami interethnic tensions to provide
lessons for current debates surrounding immigration, interethnic
relations, and national belonging.
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The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy
in Multicultural Miami, 6/2019
 The Racial Politics of Division deconstructs
antagonistic discourses that circulated in local Miami media between
African
Americans, "white" Cubans, and "black" Cubans during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift
and the 1994 Balsero Crisis. Monika Gosin challenges exclusionary arguments
pitting these groups against one another and depicts instead the nuanced ways in
which identities have been constructed, negotiated, rejected, and reclaimed in
the context of Miami's historical multiethnic tensions.
Focusing on ideas of "legitimacy," Gosin argues that dominant race-making
ideologies of the white establishment regarding "worthy citizenship" and
national belonging shape inter-minority conflict as groups negotiate their
precarious positioning within the nation. Rejecting oversimplified and divisive
racial politics, The Racial Politics of Division portrays the lived experiences
of African Americans, white Cubans, and Afro-Cubans as disrupters in the binary
frames of worth-citizenship narratives.
Foregrounding the oft-neglected voices of Afro-Cubans, Gosin posits new
narratives regarding racial positioning and notions of solidarity in Miami. By
looking back to interethnic conflict that foreshadowed current demographic and
social trends, she provides us with lessons for current debates surrounding
immigration, interethnic relations, and national belonging. Gosin also shows us
that despite these new demographic realities, white racial power continues to
reproduce itself by requiring complicity of racialized groups in exchange for a
tenuous claim on US citizenship.
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