Tierra y Libertad : : Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing / / Steven W. Bender.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Bender, Steven W.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Citizenship and Migration in the Americas ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

One of the quintessential goals of the American Dream is to own land and a home, a place to raise one’s family and prove one’s prosperity. Particularly for immigrant families, home ownership is a way to assimilate into American culture and community. However, Latinos, who make up the country’s largest minority population, have largely been unable to gain this level of inclusion. Instead, they are forced to cling to the fringes of property rights and ownership through overcrowded rentals, transitory living arrangements, and, at best, home acquisitions through subprime lenders.In Tierra y Libertad, Steven W. Bender traces the history of Latinos’ struggle for adequate housing opportunities, from the nineteenth century to today’s anti-immigrant policies and national mortgage crisis. Spanning southwest to northeast, rural to urban, Bender analyzes the legal hurdles that prevent better housing opportunities and offers ways to approach sweeping legal reform. Tierra y Libertad combines historical, cultural, legal, and personal perspectives to document the Latino community’s ongoing struggle to make America home.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Loss -- 1. Loss and Lettuce The César Chávez Legacy -- 2. Southwest Ranchos -- 3. Fields of Dreams -- 4. Loss in the Tortilla Flats -- 5. Lenders and Loss -- Part II. Exclusion -- 6. Exclusion of Undocumented Immigrants -- 7. Exclusion by Public Law -- 8. Exclusion by Private Law -- Part III. Geographic Examples of Loss and Exclusion -- 9. Born in East L.A. -- 10. Little Havana -- 11. Spanish Harlem -- Part IV. Reclamation and Reform -- 12. Tierra y Libertad -- 13. Policy Considerations in Formulating Housing Reform -- 14. Lowering the Cost of Housing and Credit -- 15. Equity for Latino/as and the Poor -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author