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Abstract Barrios
The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities
Johana Londoño
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Abstract Barrios
The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities
Johana Londoño
Ă propos de ce livre
In Abstract Barrios Johana Londoño examines how Latinized urban landscapes are made palatable for white Americans. Such Latinized urban landscapes, she observes, especially appear when whites feel threatened by concentrations of Latinx populations, commonly known as barrios. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis of barrio built environments, Londoño shows how over the past seventy years urban planners, architects, designers, policy makers, business owners, and other brokers took abstracted elements from barrio designâsuch as spatial layouts or bright colorsâto safely "Latinize" cities and manage a long-standing urban crisis of Latinx belonging. The built environments that resulted ranged from idealized notions of authentic Puerto Rican culture in the interior design of New York City's public housing in the 1950s, which sought to diminish concerns over Puerto Rican settlement, to the Fiesta Marketplace in downtown Santa Ana, California, built to counteract white flight in the 1980s. Ultimately, Londoño demonstrates that abstracted barrio culture and aesthetics sustain the economic and cultural viability of normalized, white, and middle-class urban spaces.
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Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface: The Trouble with Representing Barrios
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Brokers and the Visibility of Barrios
- One / Design for the âPuerto Rican Problemâ
- Two / Colors and the âCulture of Povertyâ
- Three / A Fiesta for âWhite Flightâ
- Four / Barrio Affinities and the Diversity Problem
- Five / Brokering, or Gentrification by Another Name
- Coda / Colorful Abstraction as Critique
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index