
Latino City
Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000
Llana Barber(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 30. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-4696-3134-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 halftones, 2 maps, 1 charts, 1 tables
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4696-3134-9 (9781469631349)
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03/2017
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Llana Barber is assistant professor of American studies at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury.