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Podcast: New Books in Latino Studies
Episode: Andrew M. Busch, âCity in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texasâ (UNC Press, 2017)
Description: Austin, Texas has a reputation as a vibrant, youthful capital city buoyed economically and culturally by the University of Texas. In City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Andrew M. Busch argues that this identity was consciously constructed over the course of the twentieth century and came at a price. Busch, an assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies at Coastal Carolina University, uses a bevy of promotional material and other municipal records to credibly argue that Austinâs image as a city of âindustry without smokestacksâ appealed to white-collar knowled...