Eating Spaces and Places: Examining the Latin@ Barrio, Chinatown, and Black Urban Space as Sites of Collective and Social Imagination

Authors

Kathlynn E. Hinkfuss, Macalester CollegeFollow

Document Type

Honors Project

Comments

My advisor for this project is Duchess Harris in the American Studies Department of Macalester College.

Abstract

I focus on three specific neighborhood tropes that are commonly understood and accepted in the American social imagination: the Latin@ Barrio, Chinatown, and Black Urban Space. I examine how these three neighborhood tropes show up in and play out on physical examples of these spaces. I identify three currently existing neighborhoods in the Upper Midwest: the South Side of Milwaukee, Chinatown in Chicago, and North Minneapolis. To more specifically interrogate the connection between the abstract and concrete, I argue that specific sites of analysis in each neighborhood are symbolically and physically consumed: the Mexican restaurant “La Perla” in Milwaukee, the Chinatown Gate in Chicago and the music video “Hot Cheetos and Takis” from Minneapolis.

Recommended Citation

Hinkfuss, Kathlynn E., "Eating Spaces and Places: Examining the Latin@ Barrio, Chinatown, and Black Urban Space as Sites of Collective and Social Imagination" (2013). American Studies Honors Projects. 9.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/amst_honors/9