Barrio America : how Latino immigrants saved the American city /
Sandoval-Strausz, A. K.,
Barrio America : how Latino immigrants saved the American city / A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. - First edition. - ix, 400 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
There Goes the Neighborhood -- Neighborhoods on the Edge -- The City of Yesteryear -- "Cracker Eden" -- Building the Urban Crisis -- Here Comes the Neighborhood -- Nineteen Sixty-Five -- Bienvenidos a Oak Cliff -- The Windy City Pitches the Woo -- La Politica -- The Seeds of the Future City -- Transnational Cities -- Building Latino Urbanism -- A New Urban America.
"The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight. 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." --
9781541697249 1541697243
2019014405
GBB9G7734 bnb
019569236 Uk
Urban renewal--United States--Case studies.
Neighborhoods--United States--Case studies.
Cities and towns--Study and teaching--United States--Case studies.
Community development, Urban--United States--Case studies.
Hispanic Americans--Case studies.
Barrio America : how Latino immigrants saved the American city / A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. - First edition. - ix, 400 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
There Goes the Neighborhood -- Neighborhoods on the Edge -- The City of Yesteryear -- "Cracker Eden" -- Building the Urban Crisis -- Here Comes the Neighborhood -- Nineteen Sixty-Five -- Bienvenidos a Oak Cliff -- The Windy City Pitches the Woo -- La Politica -- The Seeds of the Future City -- Transnational Cities -- Building Latino Urbanism -- A New Urban America.
"The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight. 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." --
9781541697249 1541697243
2019014405
GBB9G7734 bnb
019569236 Uk
Urban renewal--United States--Case studies.
Neighborhoods--United States--Case studies.
Cities and towns--Study and teaching--United States--Case studies.
Community development, Urban--United States--Case studies.
Hispanic Americans--Case studies.