The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules : Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles /

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South Los Angeles is often seen as ground zero for inter-racial conflict and violence in the United States. Since the 1940s, South LA has been predominantly a low-income African American neighborhood, and yet since the early 1990s Latino immigrants--mostly from Mexico and many undocumented--have mov...

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Autor principal: Martinez, Cid Gregory (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Neighborhood government.
Hispanic Americans.
Ethnic neighborhoods.
Ethnic conflict.
African Americans > Relations with Hispanic Americans.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Americains d'origine latino-americaine > Californie > Los Angeles.
Noirs americains > Californie > Los Angeles.
Noirs americains > Relations avec les Americains d'origine latino-americaine.
Administration de quartier > Californie > Los Angeles.
Conflits ethniques > Californie > Los Angeles.
Quartiers ethniques > Californie > Los Angeles.
Hispanic Americans > California > Los Angeles.
African Americans > California > Los Angeles.
Neighborhood government > California > Los Angeles.
Ethnic conflict > California > Los Angeles.
Ethnic neighborhoods > California > Los Angeles.
California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:South Los Angeles is often seen as ground zero for inter-racial conflict and violence in the United States. Since the 1940s, South LA has been predominantly a low-income African American neighborhood, and yet since the early 1990s Latino immigrants--mostly from Mexico and many undocumented--have moved in record numbers to the area. Given that more than a quarter million people live in South LA and that poverty rates exceed 30 percent, inter-racial conflict and violence surprises no one. The real question is: why hasn't there been more? Through vivid stories and interviews, The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules provides an answer to this question. Based on in-depth ethnographic field work collected when the author, Cid Martinez, lived and worked in schools in South Central, this study reveals the day-to-day ways in which vibrant social institutions in South LA-- its churches, its local politicians, and even its gangs--have reduced conflict and kept violence to a level that is manageable for its residents. Martinez argues that inter-racial conflict has not been managed through any coalition between different groups, but rather that these institutions have allowed established African Americans and newcomer Latinos to co-exist through avoidance--an under-appreciated strategy for managing conflict that plays a crucial role in America's low-income communities. Ultimately, this book proposes a different understanding of how neighborhood institutions are able to mitigate conflict and violence through several community dimensions of informal social controls.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780814760970

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