Cultural Planning, Racial Formation and Resistance in Santa Ana, California
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Torres, Rodolfo;Beard, Victoria A.
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UC Irvine
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2014
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UC Irvine
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2014
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It is within the everyday political and economic context that we can understand the structural limits of cultural development while also recognizing the power and resistance of low-income communities of color. This dissertation explores the possibilities for urban planners to develop cultural spaces that can help address questions of inequality and uneven development. This ethnography deepens our understanding of how low income communities of color shape and articulate their experiences in the creative city. I posed the following three questions: 1) How cultural and artist practices take shape within low income communities of color that live and work in creative cities and how in turn, communities of color shape these practices? 2) How creative development processes integrate low income communities of color at the everyday level and more specifically, impact their access to a) valuable property b) political influence and c) cultural spaces? And 3) how low income communities of color participate, resist and transform the process of cultural development?