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The research aims to understand how Latin white college students navigate their racial identities in Miami and beyond.

January 16, 2026Culture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies0 citations

Scenes of Latin* White Precarity: Negotiating Identity in the Racial Bubble of Miami and Beyond

JRJovan Emilio RiveraFlorida International University

Key Points

The research aims to understand how Latin white college students navigate their racial identities in Miami and beyond.
Utilized scholarly personal narrative and narrative inquiry frameworks.
Collected narratives from Latin white college students.
Analyzed self-perceptions of race within and outside Miami.
Participants did not identify racially while in Miami.
Outside of Miami, participants confronted their ethnoracial identities.

Abstract

In this study, I present “scenes” of Latin* white precarity: narratives of white Latin* college students’ racial experience in Miami and beyond the city. Situating these accountings in relation to my own experiences as a Black Latin* researcher, this paper is driven largely by scholarly personal narrative (Heidelberger Nash, 2015) and narrative inquiry (Connelly & Clandinin, 1990). Participants’ stories revealed how, within Miami, they did not think of themselves on racial terms, while outside the city they were compelled to reckon with their ethnoracial identities.

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