The Collaborative City: Opportunities and Struggles for Blacks and Latinos in U.S. Cities

by Gills,Douglas; Betancur,John

• ISBN13: 9780815335603
• ISBN10: 0815335601
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This edited collection examines joint efforts by Latinos and African Americans to confront problems faced by populations of both groups in urban settings (in particular, socioeconomic disadvantage and concentration in inner cities). The essays address two major issues: experiences and bases for collaboration and contention between the two groups; and the impact of urban policies and initiatives of recent decades on Blacks and Latinos in central cities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
John J. Betancur
Douglas C. Gills
The Restructuring of Urban Relations: Recent Challenges and Dilemmas for African Americans and Latinos in U.S. Cities	17	(24)
John J. Betancur
Douglas C. Gills
African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York: Cycles and Circles of Discrimination	41	(18)
Frank Bonilla
Walter Stafford
The African American and Latino Coalition Experience in Chicago Under Mayor Harold Washington	59	(30)
John J. Betancur
Douglas C. Gills
Race and Class Coalitions in the South	89	(26)
Jerome Scott
Walda Katz-Fishman
Displaced Labor Migrants or the ``Underclass'': African Americans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia's Economy	115	(22)
Carmen Teresa Whalen
Pulling Together or Pulling Apart? Black-Latino Cooperation and Competition in the U.S. Labor Market	137	(20)
Cedric Herring
Michael Bennett
Douglas C. Gills
Can't We all Just Get Along? Interethnic Organization for Economic Development	157	(20)
Rebecca Morales
Manuel Pastor
Building Networks to Tackle Global Restructuring: The Environmental and Economic Justice Movement	177	(20)
Teresa Cordova
Jose T. Bravo
Jeanne Gauna
Richard Moore
Ruben Solis
Black and Latino Coalitions: Means to Greater Budget Resources for Their Communities?	197	(18)
Stephen Alexander
Community Economic Development and the Latino Experience	215	(14)
Edwin Melendez
Michael A. Stoll
Understanding the Future: Toward a Strategy for Black and Latino Survival and Liberation in the Twenty-First Century	229	(24)
James B. Stewart
The Possibilities of Collaboration and the Challenges of Contention: Concluding Remarks	253	(6)
John J. Betancur
References	259	(30)
About the Authors	289	(4)
Index	293