1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467231803321

Autore

Rosas Abigail

Titolo

South Central is home : race and the power of community investment in Los Angeles / / Abigail Rosas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-5036-0956-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Collana

Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity

Disciplina

305.800979494

Soggetti

Community development - California - Los Angeles - History

Ethnic neighborhoods - California - Los Angeles - History

Mexican Americans - California - Los Angeles - History

African Americans - California - Los Angeles - History

Working class - California - Los Angeles - History

Electronic books.

South Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Race relations History

South Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Placemaking in Our Community -- 2 “Let’s Get Them Off to a Headstart!” -- 3 “The Wave of the Future” -- 4 Becoming “Bona Fide” Residents -- 5 Teaching Together -- 6 Celebrating Diversity -- 7 Banking in South Central -- EPILOGUE -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

South Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect. But this depiction obscures the significant Latina/o population that has called South Central home since the 1970's. More significantly, it conceals the efforts African American and Latina/o residents have made together in shaping their community. As residents have faced increasing challenges from diminished government social services, economic disinvestment, immigration enforcement, and police surveillance, they have come together in their struggle for belonging and justice. South Central Is Home investigates the development of relational community formation and highlights how communities of color like South Central experience



racism and discrimination—and how in the best of situations, they are energized to improve their conditions together. Tracking the demographic shifts in South Central from 1945 to the present, Abigail Rosas shows how financial institutions, War on Poverty programs like Headstart for school children, and community health centers emerged as crucial sites where neighbors engaged one another over what was best for their community. Through this work, Rosas illuminates the promise of community building, offering findings indispensable to our understandings of race, community, and place in U.S. society.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996197534903316

Autore

Chiarelli Cosimo

Titolo

Paolo Mantegazza : medico, antropologo, viaggiatore : selezione di contributi dai convegni di Monza, Firenze, Lerici / / a cura di Cosimo Chiarelli, Walter Pasini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze University Press, 2002

Firenze : , : Firenze University Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

9788884530394

8884530393

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

610.92

Soggetti

Anthropology

Scientists - Italy - Biography

Biography

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Selected papers presented to 3 congresses.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

The book presents a selection of the works presented during various encounters held in sites connected with the life of Paolo Mantegazza, aimed at retrieving and valorising his cultural legacy. An eclectic figure - scientist, novelist, anthropologist and politician - Paolo Mantegazza



(1831-1910) played a leading role in Italian society and the cultural scene of the late nineteenth century. The contributions of academics from different disciplines enable us to reconstruct both the great variety of the man’s interests and curiosities, and the strict methodological rigour that guided his entire scientific production and is today the most evident sign of his contemporary relevance.