Latino Design in an Age of Neoliberal Multiculturalism

Contemporary Changes in Latin/o American Urban Cultural Representation

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ID19003619
AuthorsJohana Londoño (0000-0003-4618-1524, New York University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume17
Issue5
Pages487-509
Publication date2010-11-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIdentities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1070289x.2010.526884
OpenAlexW2085539294
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

This article considers an emerging shift in Latino cultural politics of design representation and urbanism. To illustrate this shift, I include interviews with designers whose imaginative and geographic locations across the Americas have fostered a global attitude that challenges previous Latino designs that follow nationalist cultural politics of differentiation and are shaped by neoliberal multicultural imperatives. This article serves as an analytical study for scholars interested in understanding the ways in which cultural difference is included in a creative industry that has a large role to play in the configuration, evaluation, and theorization of poor, urban, and ethnic spaces. In particular, this article stimulates a debate about the different modes of incorporating Latino culture in design and generates future discussion on how to achieve more inclusive urban representations

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnic group · Latin Americans · Multiculturalism · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urbanism · Visual arts · Anthropology · Architecture, Art, Education · Art Education and Development · Gender Studies · Law · Public Spaces through Art · Architecture

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