The Folklore of the Freeway

The Folklore of the Freeway – Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and devastating countless communities—many of them minority urban neighborhoods lacking the political and economic power to resist the construction. Within the context of the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Avila maps the creative strategies devised by urban communities to document and protest the damage that highways wrought.

The Folklore of the Freeway – Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

Eric Avila
The Folklore of the Freeway

When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and devastating countless communities—many of them minority urban neighborhoods lacking the political and economic power to resist the construction. Within the context of the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Avila maps the creative strategies devised by urban communities to document and protest the damage that highways wrought.

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