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An in-depth study of a rural Hispanic community in New Mexico forcefully reveals the causes of deepening inequality and strained access to essential infrastructures and services.
Built to Exclude intervenes in assimilationist literature to contend that racialization and structural racism-not culture or a lack of assimilation-continue to shape inequality for Hispanic and Latine communities in Northern New Mexico. Montañez illustrates the impact of structural racism, geographic isolation, and institutional neglect on Taos County, New Mexico-and their worsening during the COVID-19.
Using data from interviews, participant observation, and regional reports, this book zeroes in on racialized inaccessibility that undermines Hispanic and Latine populations and impacts the community's ability to react to modern threats. Montañez examines an overreliance on social capital to focus on the real impact that a lack of infrastructure has on these under-resourced communities. In so doing, she presents a strong challenge to existing ideas about rural disaster preparedness.
While Hispanic and Latine families who have called Taos County home for centuries are systematically displaced, a growing and wealthier white community grapples with the barriers to modern living that people who consider the Sangre de Cristo Mountains as ancestral land say is not dysfunction, but a way of life.
Vital to understanding the persistent barriers that Hispanic and Latine people face in the United States, Built to Exclude argues that the barriers to equality for Hispanic and Latine Americans are baked into the way the United States has governed and racialized people of “Hispanic origin” from the beginning.
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Table of Contents
General Overview
Contents
Introduction
Why Study Rural New Mexico?
Erasure
Methods
Positionality
Limitations and Future Research
A Note on Terminology
Chapter One: The Second Colonization of the Nuevo México Territory: How Land Grants and Racialization Lead to Vulnerable Populations in the Twenty-First Century
The Colonization of New Mexico
Disenfranchisement
The Battle for Statehood
White But Not White-Racism on the Margins
Known Impacts on Modern Development
Looking Toward Future Analysis
Chapter Two: “How We Feel Like We Don't Belong”: Structural Inequalities and Gentrification
History and Modern Vulnerabilities
Gentrification in Taos
The Whitening of the Town of Taos
The Older, Richer Newcomers
Cultural Change, the Impact of Changing Demographics
Zoning and Codes-Another Way to Be Pushed Out
Historical Inequalities and the Impact of Gentrification
Chapter Three: Inaccessible: Weakened Social Capital and Barriers to Getting By
Rural Aid Access
Rural Infrastructure
Issues of Access in Taos During the Pandemic
Inaccessible Social Capital in Taos
Pushed Out
Differences in Experience Based on Ethnicity
Community, Access, and the Consequences of Going Without
Losing Community During a Pandemic
Rethinking Social Capital as an Indicator of Rural Resilience
Chapter Four: “Medical…We Don't Have That”: (Not) Accessing Healthcare
Rural Healthcare Access
Healthcare in Taos
A Brief History of Healthcare in Taos
Gaps in Healthcare Coverage
Transportation-Distance to Providers
Distrust of Healthcare in a Rural Hispanic Population
Discussion
Chapter Five: COVID-19: A Crisis Built Over Time
The COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 in Taos County
Hunger
Housing
The Limitations of Federal, State, and Local Aid
When Community Can't Make Up for Weak Infrastructure
Eroded Trust
Structural Racism, Consequences, and COVID-19 in Taos
Chapter Six: Racialized: Assimilation Isn't the Whole Story
Assimilation and Racialization
Conclusion
References
Product details
| Published | 04 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 176 |
| ISBN | 9798216465843 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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