Loisaida as urban laboratory : Puerto Rican community activism in New York /

Loisaida as Urban Laboratory is the first in-depth analysis of the network of Puerto Rican community activism in New York City's Lower East Side from 1964 to 2001. Combining social history, cultural history, Latino studies, ethnic studies, studies of social movements and urban studies, Timo Sch...

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Main Author: Schrader, Timo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2020]
Series:Geographies of justice and social transformation ; v. 51.
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505 0 |a Viva Loisaida -- From dragons to the real great society -- Charas as pioneers of urban environmental activism -- Adopt a building and sweat equity urbanism -- Loisaida community murals as activism -- The battle against gentrification -- The resident dissidents of El Spirit Republic de Puerto Rico -- The joys of activism. 
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