Is this My Home?: How White Ethnic Organizations Shape Latinx Communities
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Historically, academic themes of urban settlement have focused on topics such as white flight. Yet there exists scarce literature that considers the interplay of the history of white ethnic abandonment of urban communities and its effects today given new patterns of spatial settlement. This research aims to revisit the history of mass urban demographic shifts in an effort to understand the long-term implications of the history of white flight for new waves of racialized immigrants. Because formal organizations are indicative of the existing social structures within a community, this research focuses on the role that white ethnic organizations play in ethnically transitioned neighborhoods. This study is based on semi-structured interviews with eight individuals within the working-class communities of Berwyn and Cicero, IL in suburban Chicago. These individuals are all affiliated with Czech organizations based in these now predominantly Latinx communities. This research shows that white ethnic organizations capitalize on collective memory to maintain involvement in the community and influence ongoing cultural exchange between current and previous populations. This points to the importance of the reevaluation of spatial patterns in accordance with the differing settlement practices of new immigrants.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | June 2018 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Hernandez, Rocio E |
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Subjects
| Subject | Immigration |
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| Subject | White ethnicity |
| Subject | Neighborhood change |
| Subject | Latinx |
| Subject | Stanford |
| Subject | Urban Studies |
| Subject | Sociology |
| Subject | Ethnic Studies |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Hernandez, Rocio E. (June 2018). Is this My Home?: How White Ethnic Organizations Shape Latinx Communities. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/pd796gq5923
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Stanford University, Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Honors Theses
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- rocio.ehc@gmail.com
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