South Central is home : race and the power of community investment in Los Angeles /

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South Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect. But this depiction obscures the significant Latina/o population that has called South Central home since the 1970's. More significantly, it conceals the efforts African Ameri...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rosas, Abigail (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
Series:Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.
Subjects:
Community development > California > Los Angeles > History.
Ethnic neighborhoods > California > Los Angeles > History.
Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles > History.
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > History.
Working class > California > Los Angeles > History.
Quartiers ethniques > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire.
Travailleurs > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire.
Développement communautaire > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African Americans
Community development
Ethnic neighborhoods
Mexican Americans
Race relations
Social conditions
Working class
South Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Race relations > History.
South Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Social conditions.
California > Los Angeles
African American migration and settlement.
Latina/o immigration and settlement.
South Central Los Angeles.
War on Poverty.
community formation.
home.
interracial relationships.
politics of place.
politics of race.
relational community formation.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : uncovering Black and Latina/o relations
  • Placemaking in our community : race enterprise and the war on poverty
  • "Let's get them off to a headstart!" : community investment in Head Start
  • "The wave of the future" : the emergence of community health clinics
  • Becoming "bona fide" residents : developing relational community formation
  • Teaching together : interracial community organizing
  • Celebrating diversity : selective inclusion in a multiracial city
  • Banking in South Central : the limitations of race enterprises.

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