“Latino Mural Cityscapes: A Reflection on Public Art, History, and Community in Chicago after World War II (2011)” by Marc Rodríguez

Abstract: “Chicago is a city known for its longstanding public mural tradition as well as its community murals movement based in the African-American, Mexican-American, and Puerto-Rican neighborhoods of the city. While the murals often depict the struggles of distinct communities, the artists reflect diversity not easily reduced to racial or ethnic categories. As its many authors and artists have shown, Chicago is a city that does not easily fit delimitation or categorization. This essay is an effort to consider the art of Latinos in Chicago from the perspective of a historian in an effort to situate them in terms of their meaning (that is the things the art appears to represent or the narratives the art appears to reveal) and their placein the city (historically) and their continuing location in an environment defined by gentrification and the destruction and rebirth of communities in Chicago, a city long washed by waves of immigrants. I have made a particular effort in this  essay to refrain from discussions of cultural theory and use such materials sparingly”

This book chapter is part of the book “EthniCities: Metropolitan Cultures and Ethnic Identities in the Americas”, edited by Martin Butler, Jens Martin Gurr & Olaf Kaltmeier. The book chapter is available in ResearchGate.

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2011

AUTORES

Marc Rodríguez

EDITORES

Martin Butler, Jens Martin Gurr & Olaf Kaltmeier