Latino city : immigration and urban crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 /
Barber, Llana.
Latino city : immigration and urban crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 / by Llana Barber. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] - xii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. - Justice, power, and politics . - Justice, power, and politics. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and index.
Latino migration and the ruins of industrial America -- The urban/suburban divide -- Why Lawrence? -- Struggling for the city -- The riots of 1984 -- Forcing change -- The armpit of the Northeast -- Creating the Latino city -- Latino urbanism and the geography of opportunity.
"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"--
9781469631332 (cloth) 9781469631349 (pbk : alk. paper)
2016051603
Latin Americans--History--Massachusetts--Lawrence--20th century.
Latin Americans--Economic conditions--History--Massachusetts--Lawrence--20th century.
Race riots--History--Massachusetts--Lawrence--20th century.
Lawrence (Mass.)--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Lawrence (Mass.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
Lawrence (Mass.)--Economic conditions--20th century.
F74.L4 / B234 2017
305.8009744/5
Latino city : immigration and urban crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 / by Llana Barber. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] - xii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. - Justice, power, and politics . - Justice, power, and politics. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and index.
Latino migration and the ruins of industrial America -- The urban/suburban divide -- Why Lawrence? -- Struggling for the city -- The riots of 1984 -- Forcing change -- The armpit of the Northeast -- Creating the Latino city -- Latino urbanism and the geography of opportunity.
"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"--
9781469631332 (cloth) 9781469631349 (pbk : alk. paper)
2016051603
Latin Americans--History--Massachusetts--Lawrence--20th century.
Latin Americans--Economic conditions--History--Massachusetts--Lawrence--20th century.
Race riots--History--Massachusetts--Lawrence--20th century.
Lawrence (Mass.)--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Lawrence (Mass.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
Lawrence (Mass.)--Economic conditions--20th century.
F74.L4 / B234 2017
305.8009744/5