04260nam 2200733 450 991046723180332120200520144314.01-5036-0956-110.1515/9781503609563(CKB)4100000008331474(MiAaPQ)EBC5779774(DE-B1597)563849(DE-B1597)9781503609563(Au-PeEL)EBL5779774(OCoLC)1060178011(OCoLC)1198929607(EXLCZ)99410000000833147420190604d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSouth Central is home race and the power of community investment in Los Angeles /Abigail RosasStanford, California :Stanford University Press,2019.1 online resource (272 pages)Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity0-8047-9981-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexSouth 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.Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.Community developmentCaliforniaLos AngelesHistoryEthnic neighborhoodsCaliforniaLos AngelesHistoryMexican AmericansCaliforniaLos AngelesHistoryAfrican AmericansCaliforniaLos AngelesHistoryWorking classCaliforniaLos AngelesHistorySouth Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)Race relationsHistorySouth Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)Social conditionsElectronic books.African American migration and settlement.Latina/o immigration and settlement.South Central Los Angeles.War on Poverty.community formation.home.interracial relationships.politics of place.politics of race.relational community formation.Community developmentHistory.Ethnic neighborhoodsHistory.Mexican AmericansHistory.African AmericansHistory.Working classHistory.305.800979494Rosas Abigail1048703MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910467231803321South Central is home2477156UNINA