Love and Respect for Self and Community: Struggles for Justice in Miami-Dade Neighborhoods

This book is the result of a year-long project conducted in three Miami-Dade neighborhoods, Overtown, Little Havana, and Homestead/Florida City. FIU Labor Center Researchers and local community organizers worked together to shape the project in each area, beginning with the understanding that low-income people often face particular environmental challenges in their neighborhoods and must struggle to define and bring attention to these challenges. These works were exhibited at community spaces in each neighborhood and at Florida International University. The results exceeded our expectations, and we hope you enjoy the images of dignity, history, action, hope, while also contemplating the neglect and struggle for recognition. We invite you to see these neighborhoods through the eyes of community members.

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