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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: managed violence
  • Neighborhood councils: City Hall competes with the street for legitimacy
  • Alternative governance: Latino and African American interrelations outside of City Hall
  • Neighborhood institutions: safety from violence, and the Catholic Church
  • Faith is the opposite of fear: the Catholic Church as alternative governance
  • Street justice: gangs, the informal economy, and neighborhood residents
  • Responding to violence, keeping the peace: interracial relations between black and Latino youth gangs (co-authored with Dominic Rivera)
  • Conclusion: revisiting alternative governance.

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