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Author:

Barber, Llana, author.

Title:

Latino city : immigration and urban crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 / Llana Barber.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xii, 325 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Latin Americans--Lawrence--Lawrence--History--20th century.
Latin Americans--Lawrence--Lawrence--History--History--20th century.
Lawrence (Mass.)--History--History--20th century.
Lawrence (Mass.)--History--History--20th century.
Lawrence (Mass.)--Economic conditions--20th century.
Race riots--Lawrence--Lawrence--History--20th century.
Economic history.
Emigration and immigration.
Latin Americans.
Latin Americans--Economic conditions.
Race relations.
Race riots.
Massachusetts--Lawrence.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 -- Latino urbanism and the geography of opportunity.

Summary:

"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, joblessness, disinvestment, and profound stigma that plagued cities during the crisis era, particularly in the Rust Belt. For many Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, there was no "American Dream" awaiting them in Lawrence; instead, Latinos struggled to build lives for themselves in the ruins of industrial America"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics

ISBN:

1469631342
9781469631349
1469631334
9781469631332

OCLC:

(OCoLC)960276759

LCCN:

2016051603

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)