Abstract barrios : the crises of Latinx visibility in cities /
ABSTRACT BARRIOS centers the Latinx barrio, a spatially bound community formation within the city center or its edges, as the site of both public crises and inspiration. Throughout the twentieth century, as discriminatory policies in the labor and housing markets, as well as urban renewal policies,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | ABSTRACT BARRIOS centers the Latinx barrio, a spatially bound community formation within the city center or its edges, as the site of both public crises and inspiration. Throughout the twentieth century, as discriminatory policies in the labor and housing markets, as well as urban renewal policies, created forced concentrations of racialized populations within city centers, the barrio came to be seen, in the dominant public imagination, as a poor, working-class and racialized space. At the same time, the barrio, particularly as a result of Chicanx and Puerto Rican activism in the 1960s and 1970s, emerged as a place of political, artistic and cultural importance for Latinxs in America. Johana Londoño investigates what happens when the barrio is abstracted by cultural mediators, or "brokers," for large-scale public architecture as a means of making the barrio palatable for white Americans who view concentrated areas of Latinx populations as a crisis. She argues that by drawing inspiration from barrios, brokers effectively "Latinize" the city, taking abstracted elements from barrio design and mobilizing them in ways that do not threaten capitalist and white urban identities. Each chapter in the book analyzes a case of brokering the barrio for public infrastructure. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 306 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478008798 1478008792 9781478009658 1478009659 |