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This chapter argues that literary works by Haitian Americans who live or have lived in Miami present alternate cartographies of the city that map methods of repelling, repatriating, containing, and even killing Haitians across economic and political strata. Centering the state-sanctioned disenfranchisement of Haitian Americans in Miami, and South Florida more broadly reveals the region as contested territory, characterized by cross-cultural conflicts for space (whether the airport, hospital, detention centers, or through gentrification) and other resources. Though the procedures differ, these mechanized strategies of subjugation all share the objective of rendering Haitian people unseen in a supposedly “diverse” city. |
