Sugar plantations, Chemical Plants, COVID-19
The chemical plants in Cancer Alley are built where there once were sugar plantations. Descendants of enslaved communities still live nearby.
Combo Disaster and Environmental Injustice
Join us for the Disaster STS Network’s Fall 2021 virtual tour of Louisiana's Cancer Alley, a corridor of chemical plants along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans with shockin
Ruination or Renovation?: Dislocated attempts at "Improving" Los Angeles' La Plaza District
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
Field Works, La Plaza: Past and Present
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
Found Image: La Plaza Cultura Village Floor Plans
This image shows the three least expensive options for La Plaza Cultura Village.
Found Image: La Plaza Culture Village Construction
This image is one of several taken in May 2018 showing the ongoing construction of La Plaza Cultura Village.
Ethnographic Sketch, Competing Hegemonies
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.