Black and Latino Gangs in Multi-Racial Ghettoes: Conflict, Cooperation and Avoidance in inter-ethnic relations.

AbstractWhat do Black and Latino relations look like in multi-racial urban ghettoes? Using neighborhood change theory, we examine two Black/Latino ghettoes in California, Oakland and South Los Angeles. We find that there are three modes by which Black/Latino relations are structured in the Black/Latino ghetto: avoidance, conflict and cooperation. These relations tell us something about the structures of new multiracial urban formations. Selecting commonalities across cases we analyze data from extensive ethnographic projects conducted in Oakland, California and South Los Angeles during 2003. This rich enthnographic data examines multiple outcomes supplementing quantitative research that has previously examined single dominant outcomes in Black/Latino relations. By observing under what conditions cooperation, conflict and avoidance are produced we provide empirical evidence that shows a further need to reconceptualize multi-racial neighborhood change. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]