Barrio América: how latino immigrants saved the american city
- 1a. ed.
- ix, 400 páginas : figuras, ilustraciones Impreso
Includes bibliographical references and index
There goes the neighborhood: Neighborhood on the edge; The city of yesterday; ´Cracker eden´; Building the urban crisis. Here comes the neighborhood; Nineteen sixty-five; Bienvenidos a Oak cliff; The windy city pitches the woo. La política. The seeds of the future city: Transntional cities; Building Latino urbanism; A new urban Amemica. Conclusion. Acknowledgments. Notes Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a ´creative class´ of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers.Award-winning historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz reveals this history by focusing on two barrios: Chicago´s Little Village and Dallas´s Oak Cliff. These neighborhoods lost residents and jobs for decades before Latin American immigration turned them around beginning in the 1970s. As Sandoval-Strausz shows, Latinos made cities dynamic, stable, and safe by purchasing homes, opening businesses, and reviving street life. Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.
978-5416-9724-9
CIUDADES DESARROLLO COMUNITARIO ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTUDIOS HISPANOAMERICANOS PUEBLOS RENOVACIÓN URBANA SOCIOLOGÍA URBANA
307.76 - Comunidades Urbanas- Sociología urbana, obras interdisciplinarias sobre ciudades 307.76 - Comunidades Urbanas- Sociología urbana, obras interdisciplinarias sobre ciudades