The author provides larger context for this book by sharing the across time struggles that people of African descent in Florida have faced since European settlement in the Americas. She does so in part by drawing attention to how she joins scholars who, in years of late, have engaged memoir, or their own lives, to explore the historical past and present. She provides more history concerning her family’s 1972 relocation from Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood to the Baa Haas, a subdivision in then-Carol City, now Miami Gardens. She examines how black Miami neighborhoods had some of the anomalies in the American South that historian Arnold Hirsch anticipated when offering his “second ghetto thesis,” or the way in which black homeowners leaving segregated communities arrived at a similar situation, or a second ghetto, whenever they bought homes in areas experiencing white flight. This discussion includes attention to how the use of black student-athlete labor during University of Miami football program’s rise to prominence in the 1980s revived greater Miami’s economy. Newcomers came to this area no matter area drug wars and race riots, and later, climate change and costly property tax and insurance rates. That football program’s achievements in the 1980s and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 bookended a heyday for black homebuying in South Florida.