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Overview

Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award

This paperback edition of Mike Davis's investigation into the Latinization of America incorporates the extraordinary findings of the 2000 Census as well as new chapters on the militarization of the Border and violence against immigrants.

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Overview

Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award

This paperback edition of Mike Davis's investigation into the Latinization of America incorporates the extraordinary findings of the 2000 Census as well as new chapters on the militarization of the Border and violence against immigrants.

Editorial Reviews

Andrew Ross
Fans of Mike Davis's slash-and-burn prose and take-no-prisoners credo will not be disappointed by Magical Urbanism. —Bookforum
From The Critics
A truly intelligent, interesting, and timely book. —Bookselling This Week

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781859843284
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Publication date: 8/28/2001
  • Edition description: REVISED & EXPANDED
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 388,930
  • Series: Haymarket Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 7.50 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Mike Davis is the author of several books including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa'aloa, Hawaii.

Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso's Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.

Table of Contents

Foreword Latinos and the Crossover Aesthetic xi
1 Spicing the City 1
2 Buscando America 11
3 La Frontera's Siamese Twins 25
4 The Latino Metropolis 39
5 Tropicalizing Cold Urban Space 51
6 The Third Border 59
7 Fabricating the "Brown Peril" 67
8 Transnational Suburbs 77
9 Falling Down 91
10 The Puerto Rican Tragedy 103
11 Education Ground Zero 111
12 Disabling Spanish 119
13 Who Will Feed the Dragon? 129
14 Broken Rainbows 137
15 Uprising of the Million 143
Notes 151
Index 169
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