Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence,

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Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000 (Justice, Power, and Politics)

Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New England's first Latino-majority city. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. The arrival of tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans 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 urban crisis in U.S. cities 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 U.S. 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.

Country	USA
Author	Llana Barber
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Llana Barber
EAN	9781469631349
Feature	Latino City Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence Massachusetts 1945 2000 Justice Power and Politics
ISBN	1469631342
Label	The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer	The University of North Carolina Press
NumberOfPages	340
PublicationDate	2017-05-08
Publisher	The University of North Carolina Press
Studio	The University of North Carolina Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000 (Justice, Power, and Politics)

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