Latino City : Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 /

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"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, joblessn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barber, Llana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race riots.
Race relations.
Latin Americans > Economic conditions.
Latin Americans.
Emigration and immigration.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Émeutes raciales > Massachusetts > Lawrence > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Latino-Americains > Massachusetts > Lawrence > Conditions economiques > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Latino-Americains > Massachusetts > Lawrence > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Race riots > Massachusetts > Lawrence > History > 20th century.
Latin Americans > Massachusetts > Lawrence > Economic conditions > History > 20th century.
Latin Americans > Massachusetts > Lawrence > History > 20th century.
Massachusetts > Lawrence.
Lawrence (Mass.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Lawrence (Mass.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Lawrence (Mass.) > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : 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
  • Conclusion : Latino urbanism and the geography of opportunity.

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