Mexico City as an Urban Laboratory
Oscar Lewis, the "Culture of Poverty" and the Transnational History of the Slum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5776548 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emilio De Antuñano (0000-0003-3950-5252, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 813-830 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Urban History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0096-1442 • E-ISSN: 1552-6771 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0096144218768501 |
| OpenAlex | W2940822621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This paper examines U.S. anthropologist Oscar Lewis's research in Mexico City in the 1950s to reflect on how urban poverty has been construed in the United States and Latin America in the twentieth century. It asks why Lewis's early work on rural-urban migration won him praise among scholars of Latin America while his later research on the "culture of poverty" was lambasted across the world-with particular intensity in the United States. Through a careful examination of Lewis's ethnographic work in the Mexican "slum" of Colonia Morelos and the debates that it generated, I argue how and why Mexican slums were construed as sites of community and hope while their U.S. counterparts became associated with an irreversible "urban crisis
Art · Basic needs · Culture of poverty · Ethnography · Ethnology · Latin Americans · Political science · Population · Poverty · Praise · Slum · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · Latin American Urban Studies · Law · Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |