04490nam 22007095 450 991078699700332120230126210309.00-8147-6043-010.18574/9780814760437(CKB)2670000000358646(EBL)1186341(OCoLC)846957036(SSID)ssj0000872254(PQKBManifestationID)11527203(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000872254(PQKBWorkID)10863726(PQKB)10137218(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323870(MiAaPQ)EBC1186341(MdBmJHUP)muse27939(DE-B1597)547315(DE-B1597)9780814760437(OCoLC)843642515(EXLCZ)99267000000035864620200608h20132013 fg 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrSteel Barrio The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940 /Michael Innis-JiménezNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (250 p.)Culture, Labor, History ;10Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-2465-5 0-8147-8585-9 Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.Front matter --Contents --List of illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Mexico and the United States --2. Finding Work --3. People and Patterns --4. Home and Work --5. Great and Small --6. Resistance --7. The Great Depression --8. Teamwork --Epilogue --Notes --Bibliography --Index --About the authorSince the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago’s steel mill neighborhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, Michael Innis-Jiménez 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 neighborhood 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 center 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 labor 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 labor, urban immigration, and the segregation of cities.Culture, labor, history.Steel industry and tradeIllinoisChicagoHistory20th centuryWorking classIllinoisChicagoSocial conditions20th centuryImmigrantsIllinoisChicagoSocial conditions20th centuryMexican AmericansIllinoisChicagoHistory20th centuryChicago (Ill.)History20th centurySouth Chicago (Chicago, Ill.)History20th centuryMexicoEmigration and immigrationHistory20th centuryChicago (Ill.)Emigration and immigrationHistory20th centurySteel industry and tradeHistoryWorking classSocial conditionsImmigrantsSocial conditionsMexican AmericansHistory305.896872077311Innis-Jiménez Michaelauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1474809DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910786997003321Steel Barrio3688676UNINA