|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
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.
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.
Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban
scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global
cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually
hold the majority of the world's population, are either critically
misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not
only biases scholars' understanding of social and spatial dynamics
toward very large global cities but also maintains a void in
students' learning. This book specifically explores the
transformative relationship between globalization and urban
transition in Hartford, Connecticut, while including crucial
comparative chapters on other forgotten New England cities:
Portland, Maine, along with Lawrence and Springfield,
Massachusetts. Hartford's transformation carries a striking imprint
of globalization that has been largely missed: from its 17th
century roots as New England first inland colonial settlement, to
its emergence as one of the world's most prosperous manufacturing
and insurance metropolises, to its present configuration as one of
America's poorest post-industrial cities, which by still retaining
a globally lucrative FIRE Sector is nevertheless surrounded by one
of the nation's most prosperous metropolitan regions. The myriad of
dilemmas confronting Hartford calls for this book to take an
interdisciplinary approach. The editors' introduction places
Hartford in a global comparative perspective; Part I provides rich
historical delineations of the many rises and (not quite) falls of
Hartford; Part II offers a broad contemporary treatment of Hartford
by dissecting recent immigration and examining the demographic and
educational dimensions of the city-suburban divide; and Part III
unpacks Hartford's current social, economic, and political
situation and discusses what the city could become. Using the
lessons from this book on Hartford and other underappreciated
secondary cities in New England, urban scholars, leaders, and
residents alike can gain a number of essential insights-both
theoretical and practical.
Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban
scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global
cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually
hold the majority of the world's population, are either critically
misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not
only biases scholars' understanding of social and spatial dynamics
toward very large global cities but also maintains a void in
students' learning. This book specifically explores the
transformative relationship between globalization and urban
transition in Hartford, Connecticut, while including crucial
comparative chapters on other forgotten New England cities:
Portland, Maine, along with Lawrence and Springfield,
Massachusetts. Hartford's transformation carries a striking imprint
of globalization that has been largely missed: from its 17th
century roots as New England first inland colonial settlement, to
its emergence as one of the world's most prosperous manufacturing
and insurance metropolises, to its present configuration as one of
America's poorest post-industrial cities, which by still retaining
a globally lucrative FIRE Sector is nevertheless surrounded by one
of the nation's most prosperous metropolitan regions. The myriad of
dilemmas confronting Hartford calls for this book to take an
interdisciplinary approach. The editors' introduction places
Hartford in a global comparative perspective; Part I provides rich
historical delineations of the many rises and (not quite) falls of
Hartford; Part II offers a broad contemporary treatment of Hartford
by dissecting recent immigration and examining the demographic and
educational dimensions of the city-suburban divide; and Part III
unpacks Hartford's current social, economic, and political
situation and discusses what the city could become. Using the
lessons from this book on Hartford and other underappreciated
secondary cities in New England, urban scholars, leaders, and
residents alike can gain a number of essential insights-both
theoretical and practical.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|