D.C. Latino History Issue-Week 4
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As we head into the final week of Heritage Month, here’s another installment of our Special Issue on D.C. Latino History.
Today we feature “From ‘el barrio’ to ‘gentrified land.'”
Hola Cultura’s Isabel Fajardo, D.C. high school student who was part of our Summer Intern Team, talks to experts and local residents about the complex and often hidden impacts of neighborhood change.
Gentrification impacts the community in three main ways: economically, culturally, and emotionally…But its deep and complicated history can make its roots difficult to identify and prove that the problem exists to those who are oblivious to it. Consequently, some of the earliest instances of gentrification are absent from history books which can blind people about the discrimination occurring in their own communities and neighborhoods.
READ THE STORY
Also in this Special Issue
- The Immigrant Experience: How the life as immigrant has changed over the last four decades.
- Timeline: Find out more about the making of D.C.’s Latino community
- The un-making of a Latino neighborhood: Read about Adams Morgan in the 1980s and how it’s changed
- Remembering Latino Adams Morgan: Quotes from longtime residents
More Hispanic Heritage Month coverage on Hola Cultura
We’re working overtime to bring you stories from the community this month. In case you missed them, here’s our latest coverage:
- Interview with Elena Lacayo, frontwoman of the bilingual folk-rock band Elena y Los Fulanos
- Poesía en la Folger Shakespeare Library
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
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