Barrio Dreams
Subtitle: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780520240933
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology; Latin Americans; History - General History; Social Science; Latin America; New York; Americas (North Central South West Indies); History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Gentrification; Sociology - Urban; Anthropology - General; Latin America - General; Housing; New York (State); Puerto Ricans
First sentence: In Bodega Dreams, Ernesto Quinonez's novel set in El Barrio, the hopeful protagonist Willie Bodega dreams of building a Latino professional class born and bred in El Barrio that, through cunning and politics, would lead all Latinos toward economic and political empowerment.