This study examines how living with unsafe and degrading infrastructures leading to lead poisoning in Southern California is an embodied experience mediated by class, race, and late industrialism.
As a social and cultural historian of California, I am most drawn to understanding toxicity as an “extremely harsh or harmful quality.” Taking this working definition, it is my goal to analyze
I designed this field works trip as a way to allow for interested participants to analyze La Plaza as a case study for LA’s, and view it as a site of the visible intersections of environmental
This image shows the three least expensive options for La Plaza Cultura Village.
This image is one of several taken in May 2018 showing the ongoing construction of La Plaza Cultura Village.
This ethnographic sketch highlights the competing discourses surround La Plaza. This document complements the "Mapping Subject Positions" sketch.
This timeline shows several events in La Plaza's long history that proved foundational in creating the current socioeconomic issues the district faces today.