Modern displacements : urban injustice affecting working class communities of color in East Austin

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dc.contributor.advisorCordova, Cary, 1970-
dc.creatorGray, Amanda Elaineen
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-22T21:48:53Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:38:44Z
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:38:44Z
dc.date.issued2012-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2012en
dc.date.updated2013-11-22T21:48:53Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractIn this report I analyze both historical and contemporary urban planning policies enacted by the City of Austin, TX, through which I establish patterns of structural inequality affecting working class communities of color residing in East Austin. I examine early 20th-century urban beautification initiatives, along with the Progressive era segregationist project of the modern city. Austin city planners solidified segregation along racial lines with the 1928 Master Plan, which mandated the systematic displacement and relocation of African American and Mexican American communities to Austin’s Eastside, along with all “objectionable industries.” Today, East Austin working class communities of color continue to experience unequal burdens of environmentally hazardous industry in their neighborhoods. I examine initiatives implemented by the local grassroots environmental justice organization PODER and their fight for the health and safety of East Austin residents of color in combination with their protest against gentrifying urban planning policies and practices. Through an analysis of the PODER Young Scholars for Justice documentary, Gentrification: An Eastside Story, I look at the ways in which gentrification has changed the East Austin urban cultural landscape. This report aims to shed light upon spatial and racial social geographies that have contributed to the nearly century long battle East Austin residents have waged against discriminatory urban planning policies resulting in educational segregation, environmentally racist industrial zoning, and contemporary displacement of working class communities of color for city profit.en
dc.description.departmentAmerican Studiesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/22422en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.subject1928 master planen
dc.subjectActivismen
dc.subjectAfrican American studiesen
dc.subjectCommunities of coloren
dc.subjectDisplacementen
dc.subjectEast Austinen
dc.subjectEnvironmental justiceen
dc.subjectFreewayen
dc.subjectGentrificationen
dc.subjectInterstate 35en
dc.subjectMexican American studiesen
dc.subjectPODERen
dc.subjectProgressive Eraen
dc.subjectSegregationen
dc.subjectWorking class communitiesen
dc.subjectUrban planning policyen
dc.subjectUrban studiesen
dc.titleModern displacements : urban injustice affecting working class communities of color in East Austinen

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