TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barber,Llana
TI  - Latino city: immigration and urban crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 
T2  - Justice, power, and politics
SN  - 9781469631332 (cloth)
AV  - F74.L4 B234 2017
U1  - 305.8009744/5 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Latin Americans
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Lawrence
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Race riots
KW  - Lawrence (Mass.)
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Race relations
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -