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Tierra y libertad : land, liberty, and Latino housing /
One of the quintessential goals of the American Dream is to own land and a home, a place to raise one's family and prove one's prosperity. Particularly for immigrant families, home ownership is a way to assimilate into American culture and community. However, Latinos, who make up the count...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Citizenship and migration in the Americas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | One of the quintessential goals of the American Dream is to own land and a home, a place to raise one's family and prove one's prosperity. Particularly for immigrant families, home ownership is a way to assimilate into American culture and community. However, Latinos, who make up the country's largest minority population, have largely been unable to gain this level of inclusion. Instead, they are forced to cling to the fringes of property rights and ownership through overcrowded rentals, transitory living arrangements, and, at best, home acquisitions through subprime lenders. In Tierra y Liber. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-238) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814787229 0814787223 9780814739136 081473913X |