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Community Organizing: Leadership In Rural And Under Supported Latino Community, Juan Paulo Arangure
Community Organizing: Leadership In Rural And Under Supported Latino Community, Juan Paulo Arangure
Masters Theses
Recent studies have shown that Latinos have both the highest labor force participation rate of any ethnic group in the state of Michigan, contributing significantly to the state’s economic, cultural, and political strengths. Despite this, Latinos also face significant barriers with respect to education, entrepreneurship, and access to higher paying, “white collar” jobs.[1] There are also significant areas of Latino history and community-development work in Michigan that remain unexplored and undocumented, which detracts from the community’s strengths and resilience. This project aims to address this need by exploring the creation and founding of El Centro Hispano de Oceana County, …