{"product_id":"fault-lines-portraits-of-east-austin-hardcover","title":"Fault Lines: Portraits of East Austin - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Langmore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael King\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eWilhelmina Delco\u003c\/b\u003e (With)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEast Austin, just across Interstate 35 from Austin, Texas's capital city, is a historically working-class neighborhood that in recent years has become an arts district and hotbed for real estate developers targeting a young urban population. The shops and restaurants that for decades served Latino and African American residents are being crowded out by coffee shops, cocktail bars, and upscale bakeries hoping to attract newer residents. The resulting tensions, part of a trend debated in cities across the country, have received national media attention. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter years of observing the fragmentation of east Austin's Latino and African American communities, photographer John Langmore began to chronicle the historic neighborhood and its residents. His aim was to capture the gentrifying neighborhood's unique nature and to make Texans aware of the people and places negatively affected by the state's growth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFault Lines\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e features more than a hundred color and black-and-white photographs taken between 2006 and 2010, during which time Langmore was fully aware that the window for capturing the east Austin community was rapidly closing. Indeed today many of the neighborhood places, and even the people, have been lost to development and increasing rents and property taxes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book features a foreword by Michael King, a longtime political reporter for the \u003ci\u003eAustin Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e; essays by east Austin resident Wilhelmina Delco, Austin's first African American elected official and a ten-term member of the Texas House of Representatives, and Johnny Lim n, a sixty-six-year resident of east Austin and a prominent member of the neighborhood's Latino community; and an epilogue by Langmore.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohnny Limón\u003c\/b\u003e is an East Austin advocate whose family has lived in the neighborhood since the 1930s. His mother, Eloisa Ojeda Limón, lived in her East Austin home until her passing at the age of 104. Five generations of Limóns currently reside in Austin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770977288480,"sku":"9781595348975","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/84b8bbe5b8797e7073fe159711c01a40.webp?v=1780381463","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fault-lines-portraits-of-east-austin-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}