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Special Issue: Where we live now

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Today’s focus: The role of cultural spaces

Areas with large clusters of cultural spaces outlined in blue

Areas with large clusters of cultural spaces outlined in blue

 

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Photo: Street food by Herbert Ramirez

See our new maps tracing the spread of Latino “cultural spaces” in Washington and the suburbs. Examine the importance of restaurants, bodegas, or street food to the making of new Latino neighborhoods.

Click here to read the article and see the new maps created for Hola Cultura this spring by University of Maryland graduate students Jeanne Natalia Choquehuanca and Byron Antonio Marroquin used the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey. This work updates Hola Cultura’s research in 2015, when our team used the the Decennial Census from 1970 to 2010 to examine Latino settlement in the city of Washington alone.

 

⇒ Read the rest of the special issue here.  ⇐


tamalfest_opencallP.S.: CALLING ALL TAMAL LOVERS!

TamalFest DC is back for a second year. But we need your help to make it an even bigger success than last year’s sold-out extravaganza.  We’re now recruiting cooks, chefs, restaurants and cooking teams of friends, family members, school groups or community organizations. We also need organizing committee members, volunteers for the day of the TamalFest, and event sponsors.

Come to our informational meeting next Wednesday, Sept. 14, and learn more!