Format:
xii, [1], 376 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0226244253
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0226244288
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9780226244259
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9780226244280
Series Statement:
Historical Studies of Urban America
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content:
Like other industrial cities in the postwar period, Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north. As African American populations grew and white communities declined throughout the 1960s and '70s, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans migrated to the city, adding a complex layer to local racial dynamics. Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the postwar era. Here, Lilia Fernandez reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous s
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: Mexican and Puerto Rican Labor Migration to Chicago; Two: Putting Down Roots: Mexican and Puerto Rican Settlement on the Near West Side, 1940-60; Three: Race, Class, Housing, and Urban Renewal: Dismantling the Near West Side; Four: Pushing Puerto Ricans Around: Urban Renewal, Race, and Neighborhood Change; Five: The Evolution of the Young Lords Organization: From Street Gang to Revolutionaries; Six: From Eighteenth Street to La Dieciocho: Neighborhood Transformation in the Age of the Chicano Movement
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Seven: The Limits of Nationalism: Women's Activism and the Founding of Mujeres Latinas en AcciónConclusion; Notes; Index;
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Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226244259
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Brown in the Windy City : Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago
Language:
English
Keywords:
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