The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules : : Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles / / Cid Martinez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Martinez, Cid,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Managed Violence --; 1. Neighborhood Councils: City Hall Competes with the Street for Legitimacy --; 2. Alternative Governance: Latino and African American Interrelations outside of City Hall --; 3. Neighborhood Institutions: Safety from Violence, and the Catholic Church --; 4. Faith Is the Opposite of Fear: The Catholic Church as Alternative Governance --; 5. Street Justice: Gangs, the Informal Economy, and Neighborhood Residents --; 6. Responding to Violence, Keeping the Peace: Interracial Relations between Black and Latino Youth Gangs (co-authored with Dominic Rivera) --; Conclusion: Revisiting Alternative Governance --; Notes --; References --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814760970; 9783110728989
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814760970.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Cid Martinez.

South 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. 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.