Black Miami Intellectuals

This 2018 gathering explored how Miami and its educational, social and cultural institutions shaped the racial/ethnic identities and intellectual formations of some of the nation's leading scholars and artists: Tera Hunter, Juana Valdes, Kevin Quashie, Edda Fields-Black, Jemima Pierre, Nathan Connolly, and Anthony Jack. The resulting 2020 special issue of Anthurium, “Looking for Black Miami,” foregrounded the life writings of these Black scholars who have called Miami home, and whose histories intersect with the city’s transformative mid-twentieth century creolization process.