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Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance Kindle Edition

by Adonia E. Lugo, PhD (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity. The colonial history of southern California is interwoven through Adonia Lugo's story of growing up Chicana in Orange County, becoming a bicycle anthropologist, and co-founding Los Angeles's hallmark open streets cycling event, CicLAvia, along the way. When she takes on racism in the world of national bicycle advocacy in Washington, DC, she finds her voice and heads back to LA to organize the movement for environmental justice in active transportation.In the tradition of City of Quartz, this book will forever change the way you see Los Angeles, race and class in the United States, and the streets and people around you wherever you live.

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Colonialism, bikes, and racism...all from the perspective of those that bike. If you care about transportation equity and mobility justice, you're going to want to read Lugo's words and go with her on this journey. -Tamika Butler, Principal at Tamika L. Butler Consulting

Adonia Lugo's vision of a more equitable bicycle movement and world is worth heeding. Her apt critique of racism in transportation is constructive and practical. Anyone who cares about how cities and roads work--or, for many, don't--will gain much from her work. -Elly Blue, author of Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy

About the Author

Cultural anthropologist Adonia E. Lugo was born and raised in traditional and unceded Acjachemen territory and now lives and works in traditional and unceded Tongva territory in Los Angeles. Adonia began investigating transportation, race, and space during her graduate studies at UC Irvine, when she co-created the Los Angeles open street event CicLAvia and the organization today known as People for Mobility Justice. Since receiving her doctorate in 2013, Adonia has applied her research on "human infrastructure" in the transition to sustainable transportation and collaborated to define the concept of "mobility justice." Microcosm published her book Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance in 2018. Adonia is Equity Research Manager at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and a core organizer of The Untokening. In May 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed her to the California Transportation Commission.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07TWP34TB
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microcosm (October 9, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 9, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 667 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 125 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #967,265 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #232 in Cycling (Kindle Store)
- #335 in Urban Sociology
- #453 in Social Classes & Economic Disparity

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Steven Goodridge

Brilliant analysis of the disparities between bicycle advocates and users

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2018

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I found Dr. Lugo's insights into the differences between minority and privileged approaches to bicycling and bicycle advocacy to be extremely helpful to understanding how to better support environmental justice within the movement to improve conditions for people who move under their own power. Dr. Lugo's first-hand experiences within both minority cycling communities and white-dominated bicycle advocacy movements, combined with her keen analysis and sharp writing, provide the reader with an illuminating presentation of what is wrong with bicycling advocacy in the United States - particularly in areas with racial/ethnic/wealth disparities - and how we can begin to fix it.

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Vegan1278

Eye-opening memoir

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2020

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This book engrossingly and unflinchingly describes the Latina author's work in bike advocacy both within poor communities where people without political clout bike out of necessity, and in the bike advocacy movement, steered by white people for whom racial justice is not a priority, nor even a perceived need. The author explains that car centric culture is as much about avoiding the "wrong" kinds of people as it is about convenience. Excellent!

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2020

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Dr. Adonia Lugo eloquently expresses this contemporary dilemma filled with raw emotion that captures common discriminatory scenarios many POC and especially females and female POC face when navigating power structures. I applaud her honesty and courage and hope she continues her work.

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Aaron Paley

A Must for Urban Planners and Bike Advocates Alike - Invaluable Insights and a Great Read!

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2019

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Lugo has structured "Bicycle/Race" as both an analysis of the intersection of issues regarding urban planning, bicycle transportation, social equity, and the inequities of our time wrapped and interwoven with a memoir of her own. Over the course of this book, Lugo earns her PhD in anthropology studying the community of bicyclists in Los Angeles and in the United States. She also helps create CicLAvia in Los Angeles and then struggles to create equity for people of color within the realm of the League of American Bicyclists (a must read for anyone in the bike community). The personal narrative and arc not only support the structure of her brilliant critique of the current state of both urban planning and bicycle advocacy, it creates an intensely readable book that allows us insights into the inequitable systemic structures that undergird our streets as well as the society in which Lugo grew up. This book is a challenge to everyone in America who wants to make our cities better and who want to improve and enhance the bicycle within our cities. It challenges planners to think beyond their own blinders when it comes to the role they play in reinforcing existing inequities. It challenges the bicycle community to see beyond its own fixation on improved infrastructure as the key to a better future. It challenges those of us who may be privileged through our own upbringing to see perhaps the role that we might be playing in continuing a status quo of inequity. Most compellingly, Lugo manages to do all of this within a beautifully written and personal book that is also filled with deep research and incredible insights. Finally, this is definitely the best history yet written of the rise and evolution of CicLAvia in Los Angeles by one of its co-founders.

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Angela M Schmitt

Incisive critique

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2019

I have been involved with bike advocacy for about a decade and I really got a lot out of this book. The format of the book, sort of a memoir style, works really well and makes it readable. It's peppered with all these great insights that are really clearly explained. I'm really grateful for critiques like this. I think they're important.

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