Chapter 1 Introduction: If Elián Were Black?

Chapter 2 “It’s Like Cubans Could Only Be White,” Divided Arrival: Origins of a Racially Bifurcated Migration

Chapter 3 Beyond El Ajiaco: Eviction from el Exilio (1959–1979) and Miami’s (White) Cuban Wall

Chapter 4 “You Ain’t Black, You’re Cuban!”: Mariels, Stigmatization, and the Politics of De-Racialization (1980–1989)

Chapter 5 “They Would Have Tossed Him Back into the Sea,” Balseros, Elián, and Race Matters in the Miami Latinx Millennium (1990-present)

Chapter 6 From la Cuba de Ayer to el Miami De Ayer: The Cuban “Ethnic Myth” in Contemporary Context