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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dávila, Arlene M., 1965- author.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 260 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Gentrification -- New York (State) -- New York. Urbanization -- New York (State) -- New York. Puerto Ricans -- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York. Latin Americans -- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York. Latin Americans -- Housing -- United States. Housing policy -- New York (State) -- New York. Enterprise zones -- New York (State) -- New York. Urbanization. Economic history. Enterprise zones. Gentrification. Housing policy. Latin Americans -- Housing. Politics and government. Social conditions. East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions. East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions. East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Politics and government. New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- East Harlem. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11130792

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ISBN:	9780520937727 0520937724 0520240928 9780520240926 0520240936 9780520240933 9786612763014 6612763019 1597344796 9781597344791 1282763016 9781282763012
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Dávila, Arlene M., 1965- Barrio dreams. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520240928 0520240936

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Barrio business, Barrio dreams
Dreams of place and housing struggles
"El Barrio es de todos" : predicaments of culture and place
Empowered culture? : the Empowerment Zone and the selling of El Barrio
The Edison project : on corporate headquarters, museums, and the education of El Barrio
The Mexican Barrio : Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the terrain of Latinidad
The marketable neighborhood : outdoor ads meet street art.