Magical Urbanism
Latinos Reinvent the US City
Erschienen am 25. Juni 2024
224 Seiten
978-1-80429-768-1 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award
A CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC, Magical Urbanism focuses on how Latinos are attempting to translate their urban demographic ascendancy into effective social power. Mike Davis chronicles the Dickensian underworld of day labor in New York, tracks the development of new ecologies and levels of development along the border, and examines the shifting realities of life and work for Latinos in US cities. The cosmopolitan result of the Latinization of America's cities "is a rich, constantly evolving" culture that has the potential, argues Davis, to become a radical new American counterculture.
A CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC, Magical Urbanism focuses on how Latinos are attempting to translate their urban demographic ascendancy into effective social power. Mike Davis chronicles the Dickensian underworld of day labor in New York, tracks the development of new ecologies and levels of development along the border, and examines the shifting realities of life and work for Latinos in US cities. The cosmopolitan result of the Latinization of America's cities "is a rich, constantly evolving" culture that has the potential, argues Davis, to become a radical new American counterculture.
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Ebook UK & RoW
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Produkt-Hinweis
Reflowable
Readable offline
ISBN-13
978-1-80429-768-1 (9781804297681)
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A former meat cutter and truck driver, as well as a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award, Mike Davis's many books include Set the Night on Fire, Planet of Slums, and Late Victorian Holocausts. He lives in San Diego.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword: Latinos and the Crossover Aesthetic by Román de la Campa
- 1. Spicing the City
- 2. Buscando América
- 3. Siamese Twins
- 4. ¿Cuántos Mas?
- 5. The Latino Metropolis
- 6. Tropicalizing Cold Urban Space
- 7. The Third Border
- 8. The Devil's Rancho
- 9. Fabricating the "Brown Peril"
- 10. Transnational Suburbs
- 11. Falling Down
- 12. The Puerto Rican Tragedy
- 13. Education Ground Zero
- 14. Disabling Spanish
- 15. Who Will Feed the Dragon?
- 16. Broken Rainbows
- 17. Uprising of the Million
- Notes
- Index
