Latino City (eBook)

Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000

Llana Barber (Autor)

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2017
340 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469631356 (ISBN)

Infos

Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New England's first Latino-majority city. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. The arrival of tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the late twentieth century brought new life to the struggling city, but settling in Lawrence was fraught with challenges. Facing hostility from their neighbors, exclusion from local governance, inadequate city services, and limited job prospects, Latinos fought and organized for the right to make a home in the city. In this book, Llana Barber interweaves the histories of urban crisis in U.S. cities 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 U.S. cities during the crisis era, particularly in the Rust Belt. For many Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, there was no "e;American Dream"e; awaiting them in Lawrence; instead, Latinos struggled to build lives for themselves in the ruins of industrial America.

Autor

Llana Barber is associate professor of American studies at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 7 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph, 1 tables, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: 1980s • Cities • deindustrialization • dominicans • education reform • Empire • Ethnicity • Gentrification • Geography • Global Cities • Immigration • imperial migration • kinship networks • Latino • Latino activism • postwar era • Puerto Ricans • Race • racial violence • Right to the City • Riots • Small cities • Suburbanization • Urban Crisis • urban economic decline • Urban renewal • Voting rights • Welfare reform • white ethnics
• ISBN-13: 9781469631356 / 9781469631356