ABSTRACT
In their award-winning book, Portes and Stepick (1993) characterized metropolitan Miami as a City on the Edge. The vision of a city on the edge simultaneously captures the dynamics and excitement, as well as the danger and uncertainty, facing an urban area that is the essence of a real-world multilingual, multiracial, and multicultural social experiment. The focus of this chapter is a very small, predominantly Black incorporated community – Florida City – which is embedded, albeit peripherally, within the complex urban ecological network that is metropolitan Miami.
