Steel Barrio

The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940

Autor: Michael Innis-Jimenez

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Editura: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed com...

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Autor

Michael Innis-Jimenez

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2013

Pagini

248

EAN

9780814785850

ISBN

0814785859

Enbook ID

04932641

Editura

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

386

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 18

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Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago's steel mill neighbourhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, Michael Innis-Jimenez tells the story of a vibrant, active community that continues to play a central role in American politics and society. Examining how the fortunes of Mexicans in South Chicago were linked to the environment they helped to build, Steel Barrio offers new insights into how and why Mexican Americans created community. This book investigates the years between the World Wars, the period that witnessed the first, massive influx of Mexicans into Chicago. South Chicago Mexicans lived in a neighbourhood whose literal and figurative boundaries were defined by steel mills, which dominated economic life for Mexican immigrants. Yet while the mills provided jobs for Mexican men, they were neither the centre of community life nor the source of collective identity. Steel Barrio argues that the Mexican immigrant and Mexican American men and women who came to South Chicago created physical and imagined community not only to defend against the ever-present social, political, and economic harassment and discrimination, but to grow in a foreign, polluted environment. Steel Barrio reconstructs the everyday strategies the working-class Mexican American community adopted to survive in areas from labour to sports to activism. This book links a particular community in South Chicago to broader issues in twentieth-century U.S. history, including race and labour, urban immigration, and the segregation of cities. Michael Innis-Jimenez is a native of Laredo, Texas and Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama. He lives in Tuscaloosa where he working on his next book on Latino/a immigration to the American South.

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