Alan A. Aja is Associate Professor in the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, USA. His individual and collaborative publications have appeared in a range of scholarly and public outlets, including Ethnic Studies Review, Social Research, Latino/a Research Review, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Dissent, The American Prospect, The Washington Post, The Nation, and New Politics. His research focuses on intra-Latinx racism, stratification economics, wealth inequality, educational inequities, economic democracy, and grassroots to policy-level responses to inter-group disparities. Prior to academia, Aja worked as a labor organizer in Texas.

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• Introduction: “What if Elián was black?”.- 1 “It’s Like Cubans Could Only Be White,” Divided Arrival: Origins of a Racially Bifurcated Migration.- 2 Beyond El Ajiaco: Eviction from el Exilio (1959-1979).- 3 “You ain’t black, you Cuban!”- Mariels, Stigmatization and the Politics of De-Racialization (1980-1989).- 4 “They would have tossed him back into the sea,” Balseros, Elián and Race-Gender Matters in the Miami Latinx Millennium.- 5 From la Cuba de Ayer to el Miami De Ayer: The Cuban “Ethnic” Myth in Contemporary Context.- 6 Between “Laws and Practice,” Blacks, Latinxs, Afro-Cubans/Latinxs and Public Policy.

Alan A. Aja is Associate Professor in the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, USA. His individual and collaborative publications have appeared in a range of scholarly and public outlets, including Ethnic Studies Review, Social Research, Latino/a Research Review, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Dissent, The American Prospect, The Washington Post, The Nation, and New Politics. His research focuses on intra-Latinx racism, stratification economics, wealth inequality, educational inequities, economic democracy, and grassroots to policy-level responses to inter-group disparities. Prior to academia, Aja worked as a labor organizer in Texas.

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• Introduction: “What if Elián was black?”.- 1 “It’s Like Cubans Could Only Be White,” Divided Arrival: Origins of a Racially Bifurcated Migration.- 2 Beyond El Ajiaco: Eviction from el Exilio (1959-1979).- 3 “You ain’t black, you Cuban!”- Mariels, Stigmatization and the Politics of De-Racialization (1980-1989).- 4 “They would have tossed him back into the sea,” Balseros, Elián and Race-Gender Matters in the Miami Latinx Millennium.- 5 From la Cuba de Ayer to el Miami De Ayer: The Cuban “Ethnic” Myth in Contemporary Context.- 6 Between “Laws and Practice,” Blacks, Latinxs, Afro-Cubans/Latinxs and Public Policy.

Alan A. Aja is Associate Professor in the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, USA. His individual and collaborative publications have appeared in a range of scholarly and public outlets, including Ethnic Studies Review, Social Research, Latino/a Research Review, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Dissent, The American Prospect, The Washington Post, The Nation, and New Politics. His research focuses on intra-Latinx racism, stratification economics, wealth inequality, educational inequities, economic democracy, and grassroots to policy-level responses to inter-group disparities. Prior to academia, Aja worked as a labor organizer in Texas.

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• Introduction: “What if Elián was black?”.- 1 “It’s Like Cubans Could Only Be White,” Divided Arrival: Origins of a Racially Bifurcated Migration.- 2 Beyond El Ajiaco: Eviction from el Exilio (1959-1979).- 3 “You ain’t black, you Cuban!”- Mariels, Stigmatization and the Politics of De-Racialization (1980-1989).- 4 “They would have tossed him back into the sea,” Balseros, Elián and Race-Gender Matters in the Miami Latinx Millennium.- 5 From la Cuba de Ayer to el Miami De Ayer: The Cuban “Ethnic” Myth in Contemporary Context.- 6 Between “Laws and Practice,” Blacks, Latinxs, Afro-Cubans/Latinxs and Public Policy.