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SUMMARY:"Mi Casa Es Mi Castillo" ("My Home is My Castle"): Mexican Americ
 an Homeowner Politics and Suburban Renewal in Los Angeles\, 1955-1970"
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DESCRIPTION:Postdoctoral research colloquium: The prevailing assumptions 
 about the process of suburban growth following World War II\, both in th
 e scholarly community and in popular culture\, hold that suburban expans
 ion moved away from declining central cities. Integral to this process w
 as a shift in the coupling of race and space as the terms "urban" and "s
 uburban" became infused with distinctly racialized identifiers. This pos
 twar narrative\, set along a black/white axis\, represents the standard 
 framework of suburban history. However\, suburban Los Angeles challenges
  the state of the field because suburban development moved towards worki
 ng-class Mexican American communities on the periphery. These formerly s
 elf-contained places resided in unincorporated county territory close to
  agricultural industries and suffered from a lack of basic municipal ser
 vices such as indoor and outdoor plumbing\, street lights\, sidewalks\, 
 and paved roads. Once annexed to incorporated cities\, rather than push 
 for infrastructural improvements\, civic officials pursued the wholesale
  removal and redevelopment of these neighborhoods through the use of emi
 nent domain. This presentation highlights the attempts by working-class 
 Mexican Americans to resist\, and eventually to control\, the impact of 
 removal and redevelopment on their communities while also illuminating t
 he role middle-class Mexican Americans played in shaping suburban Los An
 geles.
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LOCATION:160 English Building
CONTACT:265-0370
ORGANIZER:aprodrig@illinois.edu
URL:http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2856?key=2000010120000101144528
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