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Barrio America - How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City (Hardcover)
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Barrio America - How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City (Hardcover)
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Starting around 70 years ago, white flight out of America's major
cities caused rapid urban decline. Now we are witnessing a
resurgence of American urbanism said to be the result of white
people's return. But this account entirely passes over the stable
immigrant communities who arrived and never left: as whites fled
for the suburbs and exurbs in increasing numbers, Latin Americans
immigrated to urban centres in even greater numbers. Barrio America
charts the vibrant revival of American cities in the 1970s, 1980s
and 1990s, arguing that we should attribute this revival to the
influx of Latin American immigrants -- both legal and not. An
award-winning historian and son of immigrants, Andrew
Sandoval-Strausz recounts this untold history by focusing on the
largest immigrant barrios in two of the nation's largest cities:
Chicago's Little Village and Dallas's Oak Cliff. These
neighbourhoods were once classic examples of urban crisis: they
reached their peak prosperity around 1950, afterwards losing
residents, jobs, and opportunity, which destabilised urban public
order. But after 1965, when Lyndon Johnson overturned the
restrictive 1924 immigration law and a major agricultural crisis
was convulsing Mexico, these neighbourhoods saw a record number of
incoming Latin Americans. The nation's urban barrios are regularly
portrayed as decaying districts plagued by crime and disorder, but
in reality, over the past several decades, areas with growing
immigrant populations have become some of the most dynamic, stable,
and safe neighbourhoods in their cities. The new immigrants brought
with them three distinctive cultural traditions -- penchants for
public spaces, walking, and small entrepreneurship -- that have
changed the American city for the better. Drawing on dozens of oral
histories with migrantes themselves, Sandoval-Strausz places
immigrant voices at the centre of the narrative, emphasising the
choices of Latin American newcomers, the motivations that brought
them to the United States, and the hopes that lay before them,
their families, and their communities. Barrio America demonstrates
how migrants have used their labour, their capital, and their
culture to build a new metropolitan America.
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