Latino city
Subtitle: immigration and urban crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000
By: by Llana Barber
Series: Justice, power, and politics; Justice, power, and politics
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781469631332; 9781469631349; 9781469631356
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Race relations; Economic conditions; Race riots; Latin Americans; History
Description: "Interweaves the histories of U.S. urban crisis and imperial migration from Latin America. Pushed to migrate by political and economic circumstances shaped by the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America, poor and working-class Latinos then had to reckon with the segregation, joblessness, disinvestment, and profound stigma that plagued cities during the crisis era, particularly in the Rust Belt. For many Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, there was no "American Dream" awaiting them in Lawrence; instead, Latinos struggled to build lives for themselves in the ruins of industrial America"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Latino migration and the ruins of industrial America; title: The urban/suburban divide; title: Why Lawrence?; title: Struggling for the city; title: The riots of 1984; title: Forcing change; title: The armpit of the Northeast; title: Creating the Latino city; title: Latino urbanism and the geography of opportunity.