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Marketing Ybor City: Race, Ethnicity, and Historic Preservation in the Sunbelt
Author(s) -
Greenbaum Susan D.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1990.4.1.58
Subject(s) - ethnic group , quarter (canadian coin) , race (biology) , immigration , politics , latin americans , white (mutation) , political science , world war ii , economic growth , geography , sociology , gender studies , archaeology , law , biochemistry , chemistry , economics , gene
YBOR CITY IS the historic Latin Quarter in Tampa, Florida. First established in 1886, this neighborhood was the site of Tampa's cigar factories and was populated by Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrants. After World War II, white flight and physical decay brought racial changes, and in the 1960s urban renewal demolished much of the residential section. In the 1970s, however, planners and developers launched an effort to revitalize Ybor City. In this article I examine Hie racial and ethnic politics surrounding Ybor City revitalization, focusing on historical patterns of interethnic relations and contemporary efforts to promote the cultural heritage of the neighborhood, [historic preservation, ethnicity, race, neighborhood, revitalization]