{"product_id":"the-neighborhood-has-its-own-rules-latinos-and-african-americans-in-south-los-angeles-1","title":"Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules","description":"\u003cp\u003eSouth Los Angeles is often seen as ground zero for inter-racial conflict and violence in the United States. Since the 1940s, South LA has been predominantly a low-income African American neighborhood, and yet since the early 1990s Latino immigrants—mostly from Mexico and many undocumented—have moved in record numbers to the area. Given that more than a quarter million people live in South LA and that poverty rates exceed 30 percent, inter-racial conflict and violence surprises no one. The real question is: why hasn't there been more? Through vivid stories and interviews, The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules provides an answer to this question. \u003cbr\u003e\n Based on in-depth ethnographic field work collected when the author, Cid Martinez, lived and worked in schools in South Central, this study reveals the day-to-day ways in which vibrant social institutions in South LA— its churches, its local politicians, and even its gangs—have reduced conflict and kept violence to a level that is manageable for its residents. Martinez argues that inter-racial conflict has not been managed through any coalition between different groups, but rather that these institutions have allowed established African Americans and newcomer Latinos to co-exist through avoidance—an under-appreciated strategy for managing conflict that plays a crucial role in America's low-income communities. Ultimately, this book proposes a different understanding of how neighborhood institutions are able to mitigate conflict and violence through several community dimensions of informal social controls.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54021509644632,"sku":null,"price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780814762844__677315ff70b3e_6dfe3adc-81de-4280-b8ea-29ae214c9c61.jpg?v=1741160436","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-neighborhood-has-its-own-rules-latinos-and-african-americans-in-south-los-angeles-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}