Latino City by Llana Barber

Latino City by Llana Barber

By 2000, Lawrence, Massachusetts, became New England's first Latino-majority city, and Latinos—mainly Dominicans and Puerto Ricans—currently make up nearly three-quarters of its population. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. Latino immigration in the late twentieth century brought new life to the struggling city, but settling in Lawrence was fraught with challenges. Facing hostility from their neighbors, exclusion from local governance, inadequate city services, and limited job prospects, Latinos fought and organized for the right to make a home in the city. In this book, Llana Barber 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.

Llana Barber is assistant professor of American studies at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury.

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ISBN 13	9781469631332
ISBN 10	1469631334
Title	Latino City
Author	Llana Barber
Series	Justice Power And Politics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The University of North Carolina Press
Year published	2017-05-30
Number of pages	352
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