{"product_id":"barrio-america","title":"Barrio America","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirty years ago most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a \"creative class\" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz reveals this history by focusing on two barrios: Chicago's Little Village and Dallas's Oak Cliff. These neighborhoods lost residents and jobs for decades before Latin American immigration turned them around beginning in the 1970s. As Sandoval-Strausz shows Latinos made cities dynamic stable and safe by purchasing homes opening businesses and reviving street life. \u003ci\u003eBarrio America\u003c\/i\u003e uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.\u003c\/div\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44786730533043,"sku":"9781541697249","price":1948.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477297689781541697249.jpg?v=1762807295","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/barrio-america","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}