Barrio dreams : Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the neoliberal city

Author(s)

• Dávila, Arlene M.

Bibliographic Information

Barrio dreams : Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the neoliberal city

Arlene Dávila

University of California Press, c2004

• : cloth
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Arlene Davila brilliantly considers the cultural politics of urban space in this lively exploration of Puerto Rican and Latino experience in New York, the global center of culture and consumption, where Latinos are now the biggest minority group. Analyzing the simultaneous gentrification and Latinization of what is known as El Barrio or Spanish Harlem, Barrio Dreams makes a compelling case that--despite neoliberalism's race-and ethnicity-free tenets--dreams of economic empowerment are never devoid of distinct racial and ethnic considerations. Davila scrutinizes dramatic shifts in housing, the growth of charter schools, and the enactment of Empowerment Zone legislation that promises upward mobility and empowerment while shutting out many longtime residents. Foregrounding privatization and consumption, she offers an innovative look at the marketing of Latino space. She emphasizes class among Latinos while touching on black-Latino and Mexican-Puerto Rican relations. Providing a unique multifaceted view of the place of Latinos in the changing urban landscape, Barrio Dreams is one of the most nuanced and original examinations of the complex social and economic forces shaping our cities today.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Barrio Business, Barrio Dreams 1. Dreams of Place and Housing Struggles 2. "El Barrio es de Todos": Predicaments of Culture and Place 3. Empowered Culture?: Tourism, the Empowerment Zone and the Selling of El Barrio 4. Culture as Business and Business as Culture: On Corporate Headquarters, Museums, and the Education of El Barrio 5. The Mexican Barrio: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and the Terrain of Latinidad 6. The Marketable Neighborhood: Outdoor Ads Meet Street Art Some Final Words Notes References Index

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Details

• NCID: BA67437359
• ISBN:
  • 0520240928
  • 9780520240933
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 260 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 307.1416097471
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Gentrification -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Urban development -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Puerto Ricans -- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Latin Americans -- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Latin Americans -- Housing -- United States
  • LCSH : Housing policy -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Enterprise zones -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions
  • LCSH : East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Politics and government