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Anaheim Blvd: Hood to Suburbby Alkaid Ramirez
Anaheim Blvd: Hood to Suburb is a Risograph artist book that examines the gentrification of Orange County, California’s Anaheim and the erasure of Latinx/e communities within. Narrated as oral history by Alkaid Ramirez, the book is structured as a photographic timeline of the artist's neighborhood, outlining the displacement of family businesses and homes—a devastating effect of the rampant real-estate developments in the area uprooting working-class communities. Ramirez writes about Anaheim Blvd, recollecting childhood memories and local establishments to document the importance of Chicanx history: An old veterano, a doughnut shop on the corner, hard-working parents who built his community. Both a counter-archive and a call to action, Ramirez refuses to accept the loss of his neighborhood. Instead, he speaks back, coopting developers' language, signage, and "we buy homes" postcards, remaining hopeful that local organizing and resistance movements will preserve the presence of those who made Anaheim.
The publication features photography and writing by Alkaid Ramirez, an essay by Sarah Rafael García, and poetry by Jesús Cortez.
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Publication details: Softcover, Singer-sewn, 8 in. x 6 in. 5-color Risograph with
short sheets, edition 150, 2025
Published & Printed by Seaton Street Press
© ALKAID RAMIREZ
