This book explores the reception experiences of post-1958 Afro-Cubans in South Florida in relation to their similarly situated “white� Cuban compatriots. Utilizing interviews, ethnographic observations, and applying Census data analyses, Aja begins not with the more socially diverse 1980 Mariel boatlift, but earlier, documenting that a small number of middle-class Afro-Cuban exiles defied predominant settlement patterns in the 1960 and 70s, attempting to immerse themselves in the newly formed but ultimately racially exclusive “ethnic enclave.� Confronting a local Miami Cuban “white wall� and anti-black Southern racism subsumed within an intra-group “success� myth that equally holds Cubans and other Latin Americans hail from “racial democracies,� black Cubans immigrants and their children, including subsequent waves of arrival and return-migrants, found themselves negotiating the boundaries of being both “black� and “Latino� in the United States.