Community murals in US innercity neighborhoods offer popular, grassroots representations of local identities and their relation to urban space and community culture. They are powerful tools in building neighborhood solidarity across ethnic groups, generations, and defended gang territories. Designed primarily for local consumption, murals circulate dramatic, alternative representations of local identity, heritage and history, contesting attributions of stigma and danger promulgated in mainstream media. In Boston's Dudley Street corridor that crosscuts its Roxbury and Dorchester neighborhoods, both low-income communities of color, these themes are evident in the presence of a vibrant series of community murals lining the one-mile long street. Designed and painted by local youth under the sponsorship of grassroots communitybased organizations, the murals give voice to urban youth's hopes, struggles, and aspirations for their individual and collective futures, from their positions in disadvantaged, multi-ethnic neighborhoods in a city sharply divided by race and class. Murals, public art, urban ethnography, youth. The visual culture of cities . . .represents a central formative feature of the lives and identities of contemporary citizens and demands ethno-bs_bs_banner
Com o objetivo de discutir a relação entre etnografia, história e memória, especificamente no que se refere ao modo como o ‘passado’ é percecionado, representado e usado no presente, projetando-se no futuro, o artigo reflete criticamente sobre uma pesquisa realizada nos anos 1990 sobre um bairro histórico e “popular” de Lisboa. O modo como diferentes tipos de temporalidades e de memórias são estrategicamente evocadas sob a forma de “mito de origem” ou de “marcha popular”, contribuindo para a definição de um pequeno território “tradicional” urbano, e o papel ativo que o processo etnográfico desempenha neste processo são alguns dos pontos analisados.
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