Winner of the 2022 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Award, given by the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Finalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America
Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central Dreams, eminent scholars Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor follow its transformation from a historically Black neighborhood into a predominantly Latino one, providing a fresh, inside look at the fascinating-and constantly changing-relationships between these two racial and ethnic groups in California.
Drawing on almost two hundred interviews and statistical data, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor ex
