1st Edition

The Struggle For Community

By Allan David Heskin Copyright 1991
    195 Pages
    by Routledge

    195 Pages
    by Routledge

    Drawing on a case study of multi-ethnic working-class tenants in Los Angeles, this book describes the group's successful fight against displacement. It examines how community leaders establish their hegemony and addresses the roles of class, ethnicity and gender in community struggles.

    Prologue -- A Struggle for Community -- Community -- Empowerment and Disempowerment -- Class -- Ethnicity, Language, and Racism -- Gender -- Afterword

    Biography

    Allan David Heskin