Bicycle Race Adonia Lugo

Lugo is involved in a number of projects designed to expand support for mobility justice.

Bicycle race adonia lugo. 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. Lugo published june 16 2019 posted by guest blogger in bicycle race. 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.

Transportation culture resistance. She co founded los angeles ciclavia and ciudad de luces an outreach project with day laborer bicyclists. 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. The sometimes overlooked fact that biking is not just for well to do white guys is central to the work adonia lugo does as a bike advocate activist and anthropologist.

Strong towns s own kea wilson recently had the opportunity to interview dr. The colonial history of southern california is interwoven through adonia lugo s. She is an advisory board co chair with people for mobility justice a core organizer of the untokening and the manager of the bike equity network email list. The book is both a broad ranging investigation of how people of color have historically navigated the cycling world and a personal story of the author s life and experiences with bicycling as a commuter an academic an organizer and a.

In addition to her role as an educator at aula dr. Adonia lugo an urban anthropologist and mobility justice strategist based in los angeles. Bicycle race paints an unforgettable picture of los angeles and the united states from the perspective of two wheels. I am also the interim chair of the ma in urban sustainability usma at antioch university los angeles i collaborate with folks around the country to envision a sustainable transportation future centered in the needs and experiences of historically marginalized communities and people of color.

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. Adonia lugo an la based urban anthropologist and mobility justice strategist gave a talk at iit about the principles of mobility justice and her new book bicycle race. 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. Lugo is the author of bicycle race.

Bicycle race by adonia e. Adonia lugo brings her anthropology dissertation research into a readable and accessible book documenting the intersection of race transportation inequality and bicycling. Lugo an urban anthropologist and mobility justice strategist based in los angeles.