Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000 (Justice, Power, and Politics)

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Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New England’s first Latino-majority city. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral within the decades after World War II because of deindustrialization and suburbanization. The arrival of tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans within the late twentieth century brought new life to the struggling city, but settling in Lawrence was once fraught with challenges. Facing hostility from their neighbors, exclusion from local governance, inadequate city services and products, and limited job prospects, Latinos fought and organized for the suitable to make a home within the city.

In this book, Llana Barber interweaves the histories of urban crisis in U.S. cities and imperial migration from Latin The us. Pushed to migrate by political and economic circumstances shaped by the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin The us, poor and working-class Latinos then needed to reckon with the segregation, joblessness, disinvestment, and profound stigma that plagued U.S. cities all through the crisis era, particularly within the Rust Belt. For lots of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, there was once no “American Dream” awaiting them in Lawrence; as an alternative, Latinos struggled to build lives for themselves within the ruins of industrial The us.

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