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Title Building sustainable worlds : Latinx placemaking in the Midwest / edited by Theresa Delgadillo, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Geraldo L. Cadava, and Claire F. Fox
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 328 pages) : illustrations
Series Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest
Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Emergent futures: Chapter 1. Unsustainable environments and place in Latinx literature / Theresa Delgadillo -- Chapter 2. Radical hospitality in a small Iowa town / Claire F. Fox -- Chapter 3. Chicago tropical : Fausto Fernós's Transloca drag performances / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes -- Chapter 4. Finding MexiRican placemaking in Michigan / Delia Fernández-Jones -- Chapter 5. A Chicagolandia zine company / Ariana Ruiz. -- Part II. Practices of placemaking: Chapter 6. Creating La Estación Gallery / Sandra Ruiz -- Chapter 7. Testimony : a welcoming spirit / Carmen Hernandez, PBVM -- Chapter 8. Creating Latinx arts networks in Chicago / J. Gibran Villalobos. -- Part III. Scale and place: Chapter 9. Festival de las Calaveras and somatic emplacement in Minnesota / Karen Mary Davalos -- Chapter 10. Refugees, religious spaces, and sanctuary in Wisconsin / Sergio M. González -- Chapter 11. The ratio of inclusion in East Chicago, Indiana / Emiliano Aguilar Jr. -- Chapter 12. Ohio Latinx festivals create new publics / Theresa Delgadillo, Laura Fernández, Marie Lerma, and Leila Vieira -- Chapter 13. Is the Chicago Latino Film Festival a Latinx place? / Geraldo L. Cadava -- Chapter 14. Living lakes : performing Latinx and Black history / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera. -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary "Latina/o/x places exist as tangible physical phenomena but also as sites built and maintained by creative cultural practices. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of contributors examines how the many ways we conceive of our communities shape those places. At the same time, our embodied experiences of place form how we imagine and reimagine our surroundings. Placemaking helps sustain communities in the current atmosphere of xenophobia and racism through cultural expression ranging from festivals to zines to sanctuary movements. It emerges not only in specific locations but as movement within and between sites; not only as part of a built environment, but also as an aesthetic practice; and not only because of efforts by cultural, political, and institutional leaders, but through mass media and countless human interactions. A rare and crucial perspective on Latina/o/x people in the Midwest, Building Sustainable Worlds reveals how expressive culture contributes to, and sustains, a sense of place in an uncertain era"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Collection of essays by Theresa Delgadillo and others
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-311) and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 15, 2022)
Subject Hispanic Americans -- Middle West -- Social life and customs
Hispanic Americans -- Middle West -- Ethnic identity
Hispanic Americans -- Middle West -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Ethnic relations
Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity
Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions
Hispanic Americans -- Social life and customs
Society & culture: general.
Society.
SUBJECT Middle West -- Ethnic relations
Subject Middle West
Form Electronic book
Author Delgadillo, Theresa, 1959- editor.
Rivera-Servera, Ramón H., 1973- editor.
Cadava, Geraldo L., 1977- editor.
Fox, Claire F., editor.
LC no. 2021055880
ISBN 0252053540
9780252053542
Other Titles Latinx placemaking in the Midwest