Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America Saito Leland T.
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America Saito Leland T. From the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and…
Specifikacia Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America Saito Leland T.
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America Saito Leland T.
From the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent. Responding to the displacement, there emerged a coalition of unions, community organizers, and faith-based groups advocating for policy change. Mirroring the urban development trend across the nation, new construction led to the displacement of low-income and working-class racial minorities, as city officials targeted these neighborhoods for demolition in order to spur economic growth and bring in affluent residents.
He uses these events to theorize the past and present processes of racial formation and the racialization of place, drawing new insights on the relationships between race, place, and policy. In Building Downtown Los Angeles Leland Saito traces these two parallel trends through specific construction projects and the backlash they provoked.