<p><i><b>Winner of the 2022 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association</b></i><br/><i><b>Honorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Award, given by the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association</b></i><br/><b><i>Finalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems</i></b><br/><b>Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America </b><br/>Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In <i>South Central Dreams</i>, 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. <br/>Drawing on almost two hundred interviews and statistical data, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor ex