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Item Mapping Baltimore Arabbers(2017-01-01) Jenkins, Sydney; Meringolo, Denise; History; Historical StudiesThis theses follows the processes and research completed to create a public history project entitled, Mapping Baltimore Arabbers. The project is place-based public history, focusing on shared authority, community engagement, and advocacy. This theses uses a broad lens to tell the history of the Baltimore Arabbers, and covers themes such as Baltimore'sfoodways, supermarket redlining, and racial discrimination.Item USING HISTORIC PRESERVATION PUBLIC POLICY TOOLS TO FACILITATE THE RECOGNITION OF MEXICAN-LATINX RESOURCES IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA(2020-05-18) DOOLEY, DON; Schiszik, Lauren; MA in Historic PreservationMexican-Latinx historic resources are under-represented in local, state, and federal historic preservation programs. This treatise focuses on how municipal governments in Los Angeles County can utilize their land-use authority to implement preservation planning policies, tools, and activities to increase the inclusion of Mexican-Latinx resources resulting in better recognition and preservation of these assets. When land-use controls for historic preservation serve a legitimate government interest, public policies can be effectively incorporated into a city’s general plan and zoning code to the lay foundation for a comprehensive citywide historic preservation program to facilitate the recognition, designation, and protection of Mexican-Latinx resources. Diligent implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act also provides the ability for cities to preserve and protect these resources. There are several historic preservation planning tools and strategies available to local government to facilitate Mexican-Latinx resource recognition. They range from leveraging state and federal context statements to conducting local historic resource surveys to adopting a traditional cultural property ordinance like the city of Tarpon Springs, Florida. Collaboration with local preservation organizations and participation in state preservation programs like those offered by the California State Historic Preservation Office and the California Arts Council offer other opportunities for resource identification and designation. Public history is another preservation planning approach to recognize Mexican-Latinx resources. There are various public policy methodologies to make public history creation possible and sustainable. The city of Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Downtown Historical Street Exhibit Program is presented as a case study of a public history program that Los Angeles County cities can replicate.Item "What White Nonsense is this?" Investigating the Seldom Seen or Heard Stories of Latinxs in the National Register of Historic Places(2019-01-01) Sandoval, Camilla; Blair, Melissa; History; Historical StudiesI am studying the master narrative of the United States told through the National Register. I want to understand how the National Register presents the place of Latinxs in our national story and what factors have led to that representation. The evidence presented in my theses shows that the National Register is inherently unsuited to recognize the historical contributions of this recently formed, forcibly displaced, and vastly understudied community of Latinxs in the DMV. The National Register was built on premises that disregarded the historical contributions of non-white communities. This biased foundation of preservation principles has resulted in a Eurocentric representation of Latinxs, meaning that the historical significance of this demographic is often tied in some way to the architecture, actions, or people of Spain. I prove that the National Register's criteria and criteria considerations make it impossible for the DMV's Latinx community to fit in the National Register's exclusionary definitions of historical significance.