Anxieties of an Ethnic Transition: The Election of the First Latino Mayor in Providence, Rhode Island

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-31

  Filindra, Alexandra ^a   Orr, Marion ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

city politics; immigration; Latinos; Providence; race; urban

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; ETHNIC MINORITY; IMMIGRATION; LATINO PEOPLE; PERCEPTION; URBAN POLITICS;

PROVIDENCE COUNTY; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871651637     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087412462449     Document Type: Article

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