| HR-50517-10 | Research Programs: Faculty Research Awards | Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz | Latino Landscapes: A Transnational History of Urban America, 1945-2000 | 1/1/2010 - 8/31/2011 | $33,600.00 | Andrew | K. | Sandoval-Strausz | | | | Regents of the University of New Mexico | Albuquerque | NM | 87131-0001 | USA | 2009 | History, General | Faculty Research Awards | Research Programs | 33600 | 0 | 33600 | 0 |
The history of postwar urban America cannot explain the state of the nation's cities until it becomes both a Latino and a transnational history. I propose to study how Latin American immigrants have transformed urban America by analyzing their use of architectural and social space. This research will test three hypotheses: that Latinos have been essential to the urban renaissance of the past fifteen years; that they have led the way in the urbanization of suburbia; and that U.S. suburbanization has been a merely temporary exception to the larger process of urbanization throughout the Americas. |