The privilege of staying dry: The impact of flooding and racism on the emergence of the "Mexican" ghetto in Austin's low-eastside, 1880-1935

Cities, Nature and Development: The Politics and Production of Urban Vulnerabilities

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 187-205

  Tretter, Eliot M ^a   Adams, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

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