Who said it?
"Now don’t jump to the conclusion that because I call my home a ”hole” it is damp and cold like a grave; there are cold holes and warm holes. Mine is a warm hole. And remember, a bear retires to his hole for the winter and lives until spring; then he comes strolling out like the Easter chick breaking from its shell."
Who is the Invisible Man?
First-person limited narration focused on women moving through NYC, especially Harlem
What is Passing?
City known for a famous statue gifted from France
What is NYC?
L.A. "Angel of Mercy"
Who is Buzzworm?
Approaches NYC with an "Empire State of Mind"
Who is Jay Z with Alicia Keys?
"Getting us to cities was supposed to be the final, necessary step in our assimilation, absorption, erasure, the completion of a five hundred-year-old genocidal campaign. But the city made us new, and we made it ours. We didn't get lost amid the sprawl of tall buildings, the stream of anonymous masses, the ceaseless din of traffic. We found one another . . ."
Who is Tommy Orange?
Follows 7 days in the lives of 7 characters related to Los Angeles
What is Tropic of Orange?
“El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula, pendejo”
What is Los Angeles (according to El Pachuco)?
"dead poet/slash/ghost presence/slash/narrator" who stages a reenactment of the founding of the Chavez Ravine barrio
Who is Manazar?
"New York, New York"
Who is Frank Sinatra?
“Place is a center of meaning constructed by experience. . . To know a place fully means both to understand it in an abstract way and to know it as one person knows another."
Who is Yi-fu Tuan?
Flaneur-like narrator walks around NYC
What is Open City?
Home to the Longest Mural in the World!
What is L.A?
Opens Zoot Suit by 'cutting through the news'
Who is El Pachuco?
"Born in East L.A."
Who is Cheech Martin?
"To a common hero, a ubiquitous character, walking in countless thousands on the streets. [. . .] What are we asking this oracle whose voice is almost indistinguishable from the rumble of history to license us, to authorize us to say, when we dedicate to him the writing that one formerly offered in praise of the gods or the inspiring muses?"
Who is Michel de Certeau?
“What I really mean,” she retorted, “is that it’s dangerous and that you ought not to run such silly risks. No one ought to. You least of all.”
Her voice was brittle. [. . .] “Yes, Clare, you. It’s not safe. Not safe at all.”
What is Passing?
Stadium that replaced over 100 homes of people of color
What is L.A.?
"Chinese from Singapore with a Vietnamese name speaking like a Mexican living in Koreatown"
Who is Bobby?
"Nueva Yol"
Bad Bunny!
BENITO
“Seemingly race-neutral urban sites contain hidden racial assumptions and imperatives. The design, construction, administration, financing, and policing of shopping malls, sports arenas, schools, highways [. . .] follow racial logics [. . .] These spaces make racial segregation seem desirable, natural, necessary, and inevitable. Even more important, these sites serve to produce and sustain racial meanings; they enact a public pedagogy about who belongs where and about what makes certain spaces desirable”
Who is George Lipsitz?
First-person narrator who exercises mobility by driving through L.A. but feels like a target and "intruder" as he moves through the city
What is If He Hollers Let Him Go?
Horizontal over vertical
What is L.A?
Best dressed highschooler
Who is Cecilia Palau?
"America" ("I Want to Live in America")
Who is the cast of Westside Story?