LEADER 04146nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910822878603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-6043-0 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814760437 035 $a(CKB)2670000000358646 035 $a(EBL)1186341 035 $a(OCoLC)846957036 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000872254 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11527203 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000872254 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10863726 035 $a(PQKB)10137218 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323870 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1186341 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27939 035 $a(DE-B1597)547315 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814760437 035 $a(OCoLC)843642515 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000358646 100 $a20130103d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSteel barrio $ethe great Mexican migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940 /$fMichael Innis-Jimenez 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 225 1 $aCulture, labor, history series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-2465-5 311 0 $a0-8147-8585-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. I. Migration -- pt. II. Community -- pt. III. Endurance. 330 $aSince the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago?s steel mill neighborhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, Michael Innis-Jiménez tells the story of a vibrant, active community that continues to play a central role in American politics and society. Examining how the fortunes of Mexicans in South Chicago were linked to the environment they helped to build, Steel Barrio offers new insights into how and why Mexican Americans created community. This book investigates the years between the World Wars, the period that witnessed the first, massive influx of Mexicans into Chicago. South Chicago Mexicans lived in a neighborhood whose literal and figurative boundaries were defined by steel mills, which dominated economic life for Mexican immigrants. Yet while the mills provided jobs for Mexican men, they were neither the center of community life nor the source of collective identity. Steel Barrio argues that the Mexican immigrant and Mexican American men and women who came to South Chicago created physical and imagined community not only to defend against the ever-present social, political, and economic harassment and discrimination, but to grow in a foreign, polluted environment. Steel Barrio reconstructs the everyday strategies the working-class Mexican American community adopted to survive in areas from labor to sports to activism. This book links a particular community in South Chicago to broader issues in twentieth-century U.S. history, including race and labor, urban immigration, and the segregation of cities. 410 0$aCulture, labor, history. 606 $aMexican Americans$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aImmigrants$zIllinois$zChicago$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aWorking class$zIllinois$zChicago$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aSteel industry and trade$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aChicago (Ill.)$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aMexico$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSouth Chicago (Chicago, Ill.)$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aChicago (Ill.)$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aMexican Americans$xHistory 615 0$aImmigrants$xSocial conditions 615 0$aWorking class$xSocial conditions 615 0$aSteel industry and trade$xHistory 676 $a305.89/6872077311 700 $aInnis-Jimenez$b Michael$01617623 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822878603321 996 $aSteel Barrio$93948891 997 $aUNINA