Londoño / Johana Londono Abstract Barrios

The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1227-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Johana Londoño examines how the barrio has become a cultural force that has been manipulated in order to create Latinized urban landscapes that are palatable for white Americans who view concentrated areas of Latinx populations as a threat.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Londoño, Johana

Johana Londono, Londono

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Trouble with Representing Barrios vii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. Brokers and the Visibility of Barrios 1
1. Design for the "Puerto Rican Problem" 23
2. Colors and the "Culture of Poverty" 70
3. A Fiesta for "White Flight" 112
4. Barrio Affinities and the Diversity Problem 143
5. Brokering, or Gentrification by Another Name 183
Coda. Colorful Abstraction as Critique 218
Notes 227
Bibliography 271
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Johana Londoño is Assistant Professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latino Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.