Latino Los Angeles

Description:

"As the twenty-first century begins, Latina/os represent 45 percent of the residents of Los Angeles County, making them the largest recial/ethnic group in the region. At the same time, the shift from manufacturing to a service-based economy in the area has contributed to a decline in good-paying jobs, significantly impacting working class families. These transformations have created a backlash that has included state propositions impacting Latina/os and escalating anti-immigrant rhetoric-and Latina/os of all backgrounds are making their voices heard." "Until recently, most research on Latina/os in the U.S. has ignored historical and contemporary dynamics in Latin America, just as scholars of Latin America have generally stopped their studies at the border. This volume roots Los Angeles in the larger arena of globalization, exploring the demographic changes that have transformed the Latino presence in LA from primarily Mexican-origin to one that now includes peoples from throughout the hemisphere. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, it combines historical perspectives with analyses of power and inequality to consider how Latina/os are responding to exclusionary immigration, labor, and schooling practices and actively creating communities. Book jacket."--Jacket.

subjects: Politics and government,  Social conditions,  Economic conditions,  Ethnicity,  Emigration and immigration,  Community life,  Ethnic relations,  Immigrants,  Hispanic Americans,  California, economic conditions,  Hispanic americans, economic conditions,  Hispanic americans, politics and government,  Hispanic americans, social conditions,  Immigrants, united states,  Latin america, emigration and immigration,  Los angeles (calif.),  United states, emigration and immigration,  United states, ethnic relations

Places: Los Angeles (Calif.),  Hispanic Americans,  California,  Los Angeles,  Immigrants,  Latin America