Semillas de Justicia

Urban Farm DB summary

This 30-month ethnographic case study in La Villita, Chicago, based on 14 interviews, examines how Chicana activists challenge environmental racism and transform blighted spaces. The study highlights their use of "Chicana environmentalism," an asset-based framework, to cultivate local knowledge and create community assets, including a community garden and the transformation of a superfund site into a public park. These efforts have increased resident land ownership and civic activity, demonstrating the organizations' ability to address city-level racist development policies.