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Barrio Dreams
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Barrio Business, Barrio Dreams 1. Dreams of Place and Housing Struggles 2. "El Barrio es de Todos": Predicaments of Culture and Place 3. Empowered Culture?: Tourism, the Empowerment Zone and the Selling of El Barrio 4. Culture as Business and Business as Culture: On Corporate Headquarters, Museums, and the Education of El Barrio 5. The Mexican Barrio: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and the Terrain of Latinidad 6. The Marketable Neighborhood: Outdoor Ads Meet Street Art Some Final Words Notes References Index

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Arlene Davila is Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People (California, 2001) and Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico (1997) and coeditor of Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York (2001).

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