- Conférence/Rencontre/Débat (recherche),
Séminaire Les Nords/Politiques Américaines, 23 novembre 2021 - Andrew K. Sandoval
Publié le 9 novembre 2021
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Mis à jour le 25 septembre 2023
Andrew K. Sandoval, de Penn State University, nous proposera une présentation intitulée “Barrio America: Latin American immigrants revitalize the urban North”.
Date(s)
le 23 novembre 2021
17h-19h
Andrew Sandoval-Strausz viendra présenter son dernier ouvrage Barrio America: how Latino Immigrants Saved the American City (Basic Books, 2019). À rebours des messages politiques décriant les immigrants comme un fardeau pour les villes qui les accueillent, Sandoval-Strausz démontre au contraire comment les immigrés Latino-américains ont contribué à faire renaître de nombreuses villes en perte de vitesse depuis l'après-guerre et le white flight des Blancs vers les banlieues. En se focalisant sur deux cas d'études (le Little Village à Chicago et Oak Cliff à Dallas), Sandoval-Strausz montre comment les Latinos ont rendu les villes plus sûres et plus dynamiques en ouvrant des magasins, en achetant des maisons et des appartements, et en réinvestissant la vie de quartier. Elsa Devienne (Northumbria University, Angleterre) sera discutante.
Andrew Sandoval-Strausz est Associate Professor à Penn State University et directeur du programme de Latino/a studies. Il est l'auteur de Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History et Hotel: An American History. Il a reçu de multiples prix, dont le Arnold Hirsch Award for Best Article pour "Latino Landscapes: Postwar Cities and the Transnational Origins of a New Urban America".
Most American historians know the postwar decades as a period of urban crisis in which cities lost population and violent crime soared. A. K. Sandoval-Strausz challenges this paradigm by decentering the United States and instead foregrounding Latin American rural-to-urban migration. He also disputes existing interpretations, from Saskia Sassen’s “global cities” synthesis to Richard Florida’s “creative class” interpretation, that credit people with a great deal of money for revitalizing urban areas. Sandoval-Strausz has proposed a “next urban history” that takes a transnational approach to cities, putting them in a pan-American context of unprecedented urbanization and migration. In this way he describes global cities from the bottom up, explaining urban repopulation and falling crime—and moving tens of millions of Latinos to the center of one of the most hotly debated aspects of United States history.
Andrew Sandoval-Strausz est Associate Professor à Penn State University et directeur du programme de Latino/a studies. Il est l'auteur de Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History et Hotel: An American History. Il a reçu de multiples prix, dont le Arnold Hirsch Award for Best Article pour "Latino Landscapes: Postwar Cities and the Transnational Origins of a New Urban America".
Most American historians know the postwar decades as a period of urban crisis in which cities lost population and violent crime soared. A. K. Sandoval-Strausz challenges this paradigm by decentering the United States and instead foregrounding Latin American rural-to-urban migration. He also disputes existing interpretations, from Saskia Sassen’s “global cities” synthesis to Richard Florida’s “creative class” interpretation, that credit people with a great deal of money for revitalizing urban areas. Sandoval-Strausz has proposed a “next urban history” that takes a transnational approach to cities, putting them in a pan-American context of unprecedented urbanization and migration. In this way he describes global cities from the bottom up, explaining urban repopulation and falling crime—and moving tens of millions of Latinos to the center of one of the most hotly debated aspects of United States history.
Mis à jour le 25 septembre 2023