Imagining Transit
Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles
©2003
Textbook
VIII,
230 Pages
Series:
Travel Writing Across the Disciplines, Volume 2
Summary
Using an analysis of the history of Los Angeles's streetcar and highway systems, Sikivu Hutchinson argues that the cultural geography of transportation has had a compelling influence upon the construction of race, gender, and urban subjectivity in the postmodern city. She highlights the influence of American anti-urbanism upon visions of the city during the Great Migration and World War II eras. Proceeding from the premise that the creation of city spaces are informed by collective cultural memory, Hutchinson explores how the decline of public transportation and the rise of the automobile have shaped African American communities and cultures in Los Angeles.
Details
- Pages
- VIII, 230
- Publication Year
- 2003
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9780820455860
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Streetcar Highway Anti urbanism City Automobile
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2003. VIII, 230 pp.
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