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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Main Author: Barber, Llana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 325 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469631356
1469631350
9781469631363
1469631369

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