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Latino City - Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 (Hardcover)
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Latino City - Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 (Hardcover)
Series: Justice, Power and Politics
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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.
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