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The nation’s Latina/o population has now reached over 50 million, or 15% of the estimated total U.S. population of 300 million, and a growing portion of the world’s population now lives and works in cities that are increasingly diverse. Latino Urbanism provides the first national perspective on Latina/o urban policy, addressing a wide range of planning policy issues that impact both Latinas/os in the US, as well as the nation as a whole, tracing how cities develop, function, and are affected by socio-economic change. The contributors are a diverse group of Latina/o scholars attempting to link their own unique theoretical interpretations and approaches to political and policy interventions in the spaces and cultures of everyday life. The three sections of the book address the politics of planning and its historic relationship with Latinas/os, the relationship between the Latina/o community and conventional urban planning issue sand challenges, and the future of urban policy and Latina/o barrios. Moving beyond a traditional analysis of Latinas/os in the Southwest, the volume expands the understanding of the important relationships between urbanization and Latinas/os including Mexican Americans of several generations within the context of the restructuring of cities, in view of the cultural and political transformation currently encompassing the nation.

Hispanic American neighborhoods. --- City planning --- Hispanic Americans --- Barrios (United States) --- Neighborhoods, Hispanic American --- Ethnic neighborhoods --- Social conditions.

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"Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little scholarship on Chicano photography. Picturing the Barrio presents the first book-length examination on the topic. David William Foster analyzes the imagery of ten distinctive artists who offer a range of approaches to portraying Chicano life. The production of each artist is examined as an ideological interpretation of how Chicano experience is constructed and interpreted through the medium of photography, in sites ranging from the traditional barrio to large metropolitan societies. These photographers present artistic as well as documentary images of the socially invisible. They and their subjects grapple with definitions of identity, as well as ethnicity and gender. As such, this study deepens our understanding of the many interpretations of the Chicano experience"--Provided by publisher.

Mexican Americans --- Community life --- Mexican American neighborhoods --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Barrios (United States) --- Ethnic neighborhoods --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Social life and customs --- Ethnic identity --- Social conditions

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Taking into account the author's consideration of this subject from a planning and urban policy perspective, this book charts the history of the largest ethnic population in America.

Mexican Americans --- Urban policy --- City planning --- Land use, Urban --- Hispanic American neighborhoods --- Barrios (United States) --- Neighborhoods, Hispanic American --- Ethnic neighborhoods --- Urban land use --- Cities and towns --- Urban economics --- Urban renewal --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- History. --- Mexican Americans history --- history

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Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities-one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens-this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?

Hispanic American neighborhoods --- Poor --- Mexican Americans --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Barrios (United States) --- Neighborhoods, Hispanic American --- Ethnic neighborhoods --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Economic conditions. --- Economic conditions --- East Los Angeles (Calif.) --- San Jose (Calif.) --- City of San José (Calif.) --- Ethnic relations. --- Urban poor --- City dwellers --- american citizens. --- barrios. --- california. --- chicano citizens. --- class differences. --- contemporary america. --- cross cultural experiences. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic study. --- fieldwork. --- financial concerns. --- impoverished communities. --- latino poverty. --- latinos. --- los angeles. --- low wage jobs. --- mexican american communities. --- mexican american culture. --- mexican americans. --- mexican immigrants. --- modern history. --- money and culture. --- poverty. --- public assistance. --- recent immigrants. --- regional survey. --- silicon valley. --- work culture. --- working class. --- Sociology of culture --- Social problems --- Sociology of minorities --- Community organization --- Mexico --- United States --- United States of America