Ethnic Urbanisms in Latinx/Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel brings together multi-disciplinary, multi-methodological, and multi-sited research of urban Latinx/Latin America to ask: How are social differences spatialized in the Americas? How is ethnicity mapped onto the hemisphere’s urban spaces and who are the main actors doing this mapping? Using several case studies, we will elaborate on identity and cultural practices and reflect on hierarchies of citizenship and how they impact the organization of urban space. Panelists will discuss Chinatown in San José, Costa Rica, Colombian New York City, Mexican Dallas and Chicago, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti to think about power and its construction of ethnicity and space.

Sub Track

• Cities and Urban Studies

Session Organizers

• Johana Londoño, University at Albany, SUNY

• Ariana Ochoa Camacho

Chair

• Christopher A Loperena, University of San Francisco

Individual Presentations

• Institutionalizing Multiculturalism or Ghettoizing Difference? - Monica C Dehart, University of Puget Sound

• Hemispheric Latino Urbanism: Transnational Migrants and the Creation of a Pan-American City System - Andrew K Sandoval-Strausz

• New York’s Lonely Streets: Spatial Constructions of Soledad in Colombian Migrant Experiences - Ariana Ochoa Camacho

• The Baz, or How to Defend the Block in Urban Haiti - Chelsey Kivland

Discussant

• Johana Londoño, University at Albany, SUNY