Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000

by Llana Barber

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469631342
• ISBN13: 9781469631349
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"