Mike Davis

Magical Urbanism

Latinos Reinvent the US City

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Produktbeschreibung

The author of "Ecology of Fear" now focuses on the great drama of how Latinosare attempting to translate their urban demographic ascendancy into effectivesocial power. New in paperback.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Revised and Expanded edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 191mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781859843284
• ISBN-10: 185984328X
• Artikelnr.: 22035925

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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