Book chapter
Radical Hospitality in a Small Iowa Town
Building Sustainable Worlds, pp.44-61
University of Illinois Press
05/15/2022
DOI: 10.5622/illinois/9780252044540.003.0003
Abstract
How do Latinx people make places for themselves and recognize their long-standing presence in small-town and rural Midwestern settings? This chapter focuses on a range of placemaking practices from performance to storytelling and community celebrations that occur in Hampton, Iowa (est. population 4231), a town with an established and growing Latinx population. It explores the potential for cultural events to model radical hospitality--unconditional welcome with the potential for reciprocity--as a political, ethical, and community-based practice through which Latinx Midwesterners express their attachment to place and imagine collective futures. The chapter further highlights the important role of Hampton’s Latinx-serving community center, La Luz Hispana (today Centro Cultural La Luz), as a facilitator of public events in which Latinx people gather and fluidly assume the roles of both guest and host.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Radical Hospitality in a Small Iowa Town
- Creators
- Claire F Fox - University of Iowa, English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Building Sustainable Worlds, pp.44-61
- DOI
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252044540.003.0003
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/15/2022
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; English; Spanish and Portuguese; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984420653802771
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