04146nam 2200721 a 450 991082287860332120200520144314.00-8147-6043-010.18574/9780814760437(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)99267000000035864620130103d2013 uy 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrSteel barrio the great Mexican migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940 /Michael Innis-Jimenez1st ed.New York New York University Press20131 online resource (250 p.)Culture, labor, history seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8147-2465-5 0-8147-8585-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. I. Migration -- pt. II. Community -- pt. III. Endurance.Since 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.Mexican AmericansIllinoisChicagoHistory20th centuryImmigrantsIllinoisChicagoSocial conditions20th centuryWorking classIllinoisChicagoSocial conditions20th centurySteel industry and tradeIllinoisChicagoHistory20th centuryChicago (Ill.)Emigration and immigrationHistory20th centuryMexicoEmigration and immigrationHistory20th centurySouth Chicago (Chicago, Ill.)History20th centuryChicago (Ill.)History20th centuryMexican AmericansHistoryImmigrantsSocial conditionsWorking classSocial conditionsSteel industry and tradeHistory305.89/6872077311Innis-Jimenez Michael1617623MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822878603321Steel Barrio3948891UNINA