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Selling EthniCity, Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas, edited by Olaf Kaltmeier

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Selling EthniCity

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edited by Olaf Kaltmeier

ProQuest Ebook CentralHeritage, culture, and identity

Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas

Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. The work argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural and ethnic elements in city planning and architecture in order to construct a unique image of a particular city. It also shows how, simultaneously, ethnic communities can benefit from ethnic labelling of cultural production

CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Selling EthniCity: Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas from the Conquest to Contemporary Consumer Societies; PART I: THE SPECTACULAR CITY AND THE PERFORMANCE OF ETHNICITY; Introduction to Part I; 1 Carnival Redux: Hurricane Katrina, Mardi Gras and Contemporary United States Experience of an Enduring Festival Form; 2 "What Did I Do to be so Global and Blue?" - Blues as Commodity: Tourism, Politics of Authenticity, and Blues Clubs in Chicago Today3 Insurrection and Symbolic Work: Graffiti in Oaxaca (Mexico) 2006/2007 as Subversion and Artistic Politics; 4 Black Day in the White City: Racism and Violence in Sucre; PART II: THE USE OF ETHNICITY IN THE IMAGINEERING OF URBAN LANDSCAPES; Introduction to Part II; 5 Urban Landscapes of Mall-ticulturality: (Retro-)Coloniality, Consumption, and Identity Politics: The Case of the San Luis Shopping Center in Quito; 6 Religion and Culture Set in Stone: A Case Study of the Jewish Community Center of Metro Detroit7 " Ambiguously Ethnic" in Sherman Alexie's Seattle: Re-Imagining Indigenous Identities in the Twenty-First Century; 8 Against the ""Erasure of Memory"" in Los Angeles City Planning: Strategies of Re-Ethnicizing LA in Digital Fiction; PART III: ETHNIC HERITAGE AND/OR CULTURAL COMMODIFICATION IN THE CITY; Introduction to Part III; 9 Quito's Historic Center: Heritage of Humanity or of the Market?; 10 "Economically, We Sit on a Cultural Gold Mine": Commodified Multiculturalism and Identity Politics in New Orleans11 Mobilizing Ethnicity: Yucatecan Maya Professionals in Merida and their Participation in the Cultural and Political Fields; 12 A City of Newcomers: Narratives of Ethnic Diversity in Vancouver; PART IV: GENTRIFICATION AND THE POLITICS OF AUTHENTICITY; Introduction to Part IV; 13 (Re-) Constructing the Ethnic Neighborhood: Gentrification in the United States and the Longing for a Unique Identity; 14 No-Go Areas and Chic Places: Socio-Spatial Segregation and Stigma in Guadalajara; 15 Spaces of Alterity and Temporal Permanence: The Case of San Francisco's and New York's Chinatowns; index