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Author: Carol Hardy-Fanta Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135672210 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 360
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This collection of original essays explores the major challenges to Latino political representation in cities where Latino populations do not make up the majority of the population and therefore cannot rely on sheer numbers to gain representation.
Author: Carol Hardy-Fanta Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135672210 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
This collection of original essays explores the major challenges to Latino political representation in cities where Latino populations do not make up the majority of the population and therefore cannot rely on sheer numbers to gain representation.
Author: Llana Barber Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469631350 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 340
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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 in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. The arrival of tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans 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 urban crisis in U.S. cities 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 U.S. 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.
Author: Carol Hardy-Fanta Publisher: ISBN: Category : Hispanic American politicians Languages : en Pages : 29
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"In our continuing effort to document accurately the history of Latino politics in Massachusetts, we have used the opportunity offered by this second printing to correct any errors we inadvertently made during the first printing and to update the statistics presented in this volume"--Preface to Second Printing.
Author: Carol Hardy-Fanta Publisher: Temple University Press ISBN: 9781566390316 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 202
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Through an in-depth study of the Latino community in Boston, Carol hardy-Fanta addressees three key debates in American politics: how to look at the ways in which women and men envision the meaning of politics and political participation; how to understand culture and the political life of expanding immigrant populations; and how to create a more participatory America. The author's interviews with Latinos from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Central and South America and her participation in community events in North Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and the South End document the often ignored contribution of Latina women as candidates, political mobilizers, and community organizers. Hardy-Fanta examines critical gender differences in how politics is defined, what strategies Latina women and Latino men use to generate political participation, and how culture and gender interact in the political empowerment of the ethic communities. Hardy-Fanta challenges the notion of political apathy among Latinos and presents factors that stimulate political participation. She finds that the vision of politics promoted by Latina women—one based on connectedness, collectivity, community, and consiousness-raising—contrasts sharply with a male political concern for status, hierarchy, and personal opportunity.
Author: Ralph Rivera Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 288
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Following its rapid growth over the past twenty years, the Latino population of Massachusetts is now the largest racial and ethnic minority group in the state. It is also one of the poorest. During the "Massachusetts Miracle" of the 1980s, the Latino poverty rate in the commonwealth was twice that of blacks and six times that of whites. And with Latino children dropping out of school at a rate three times that of white children, the economic future of these young adults is bleak indeed. Unlike blacks--who are concentrated in Boston--Latinos are dispersed geographically throughout the state. This distribution, combined with their limited economic and political power, has made Latinos victims of public indifference and neglect. This volume and its companion, Latino Poverty and Economic Development in Massachusetts, edited by Edwin Melendez and Miren Uriarte, are designed to educate policymakers and other concerned individuals about the particular needs of Latinos in Massachusetts. They address issues of education and economic development and suggest strategies to facilitate Latino empowerment in ways that preserve ethnic identity, language, and cultural expression.
Author: Carol Hardy-Fanta
Author: Carol Hardy-Fanta
Author: Carol Hardy-Fanta
Author: Andrés Torres
Author: Llana Barber
Author: Llana Barber
Author: Carol Hardy-Fanta
Author: Edwin Meléndez
Author: Carol Hardy-Fanta
Author: Carol Hardy-Fanta
Author: Ralph Rivera