Rural Place Attachment in Hispano Urban Centers

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ID4487402
AuthorsJeffrey S Smith (0000-0001-5499-4475, Kansas State University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume92
Issue3
Pages432-451
Publication date2010-04-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.2002.tb00152.x
OpenAlexW1983689404
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited83

Continued rural-to-urban migration has helped motivate cultural geographers, long suspected of having a rural bias, to include urban areas in their purview. Patterns of gender, class, ethnicity, and commercialization have proved to be fertile subjects for research, but the elastic links between rural and urban places are not yet well understood. Hispanos, despite intense feelings of loyalty to their rural villages, moved en masse to cities in the 1940s. By the 1950s a majority of Hispanos were living in regional urban centers of the upper Rio Grande country, where wages were higher and employment was secure. This Hispano experience is a crucible for examining how urbanites' attachment to rural places is manifested in various cultural expressions brought from country to city: painted murals, burial preferences, popular music, and irrigation ditches. Understanding threads of rural culture that have been incorporated into the urban fabric in turn leads to clearer comprehension of the emotional attachment that urbanites have for rural areas and a better appreciation of the complexity of the urban cultural environment

Archaeology · Crucible (geodemography · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Feeling · Geography · Loyalty · Place attachment · Political science · Rural area · Sense of place · Sociology · Urban culture · Urbanization · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Demography · Latin American Urban Studies · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Rural development and sustainability · Social Psychology

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