The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and
leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their
neighborhoods Los Angeles is well known as a sprawling metropolis
with endless freeways that can make the city feel isolating and
separate its communities. Yet in the past decade, as Jan Lin argues
in Taking Back the Boulevard, there has been a noticeable renewal
of public life on several of the city's iconic boulevards,
including Atlantic, Crenshaw, Lankershim, Sunset, Western, and
Wilshire. These arteries connect neighborhoods across the city,
traverse socioeconomic divides and ethnic enclaves, and can be
understood as the true locational heart of public life in the
metropolis. Focusing especially on the cultural scene of Northeast
Los Angeles, Lin shows how these gentrifying communities help
satisfy a white middle-class consumer demand for authentic
experiences of "living on the edge" and a spirit of cultural
rebellion. These neighborhoods have gone through several stages,
from streetcar suburbs, to disinvested neighborhoods with the
construction of freeways and white flight, to immigrant enclaves,
to the home of Chicano/a artists in the 1970s. Those artists were
then followed by non-Chicano/a, white artists, who were later
threatened with displacement by gentrifiers attracted by the
neighborhoods' culture, street life, and green amenities that
earlier inhabitants had worked to create. Lin argues that
gentrification is not a single transition, but a series of changes
that disinvest and re-invest neighborhoods with financial and
cultural capital. Drawing on community survey research, interviews
with community residents and leaders, and ethnographic observation,
this book argues that the revitalization in Northeast LA by arts
leaders and neighborhood activists marks a departure in the
political culture from the older civic engagement to more socially
progressive coalition work involving preservationists,
environmentalists, citizen protestors, and arts organizers.
Finally, Lin explores how accelerated gentrification and mass
displacement of Latino/a and working-class households in the 2010s
has sparked new rounds of activism as the community grapples with
new class conflicts and racial divides in the struggle to
self-determine its future.
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