Brown in the Windy City [[electronic resource] ] : Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago / / Lilia Fernandez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462507903321
• Autore: Fernandez Lilia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-65757-0; 0-226-24428-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Collana: Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical studies of urban America
• Disciplina: 305.89/6872077311
• Soggetti: Mexicans - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century; Mexican Americans - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century; Puerto Ricans - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century; Hispanic American neighborhoods - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century; Electronic books.; Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.) History 20th century; Pilsen (Chicago, Ill.) History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mexican and Puerto Rican Labor Migration to Chicago -- 2. Putting Down Roots: Mexican and Puerto Rican Settlement on the Near West Side, 1940-60 -- 3. Race, Class, Housing, and Urban Renewal: Dismantling the Near West Side -- 4. Pushing Puerto Ricans Around: Urban Renewal, Race, and Neighborhood Change -- 5. The Evolution of the Young Lords Organization: From Street Gang to Revolutionaries -- 6. From Eighteenth Street to La Dieciocho: Neighborhood Transformation in the Age of the Chicano Movement -- 7. The Limits of Nationalism: Women's Activism and the Founding of Mujeres Latinas en Acción -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernández reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the ; midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one of America's great cities. Through their experiences in the city's central neighborhoods over the course of these three decades, Fernández demonstrates how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans collectively articulated a distinct racial position in Chicago, one that was flexible and fluid, neither black nor white.