Latino city: immigration and urban crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000

"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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1. Verfasser: Barber, Llana (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Justice, power, and politics
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Zusammenfassung:"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"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xii, 325 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781469631332
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