South Central Is Home - Race and the Power of Community Investment in Los Angeles

Abigail Rosas is Assistant Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

List of contents

Introduction: Uncovering Black and Latina/o Relations

1. Placemaking in Our Community: Race Enterprise and the War on Poverty

2. "Let's Get Them Off to a Headstart!" Community Investment in Head Start

3. "The Wave of the Future": The Emergence of Community Health Clinics

4. Becoming "Bonafide" Residents: Developing Relational Community Formation

5. Teaching Together: Interracial Community Organizing

6. Celebrating Diversity: Selective Inclusion in a Multiracial City

7. Banking in South Central: The Limitations of Race Enterprises

Epilogue

About the author

Abigail Rosas is Assistant Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

Product details

• Authors: Abigail Rosas
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780804799812
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-9981-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Stanford Studies in Comparativ; Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity; Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity; Stanford Studies in Comparativ
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous