Brown in the Windy City : Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Fernandez, Lilia.
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 376 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Historical studies in urban America Historical studies of urban America.
Subject:	Young Lords (Organization) Mujeres Latinas en Acción -- History. Mujeres Latinas en Acción. Young Lords (Organization) 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. Hispanic American neighborhoods. Mexican Americans. Mexicans. Puerto Ricans. Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century. Pilsen (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century. Illinois -- Chicago. Illinois -- Chicago -- Near West Side. Illinois -- Chicago -- Pilsen. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11166025

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ISBN:	9780226244280 0226244288 9780226244259 0226244253 1283657570 9781283657570
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Like other industrial cities in the postwar period, Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north. As African American populations grew and white communities declined throughout the 1960s and '70s, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans migrated to the city, adding a complex layer to local racial dynamics. Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the postwar era. Here, Lilia Fernandez reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous s.
Other form:	Print version: Fernandez, Lilia. Brown in the Windy City. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012 9780226244259
Standard no.:	10.7208/9780226244280

Table of Contents:

Mexican and Puerto Rican labor migration to Chicago
Putting down roots: Mexican and Puerto Rican settlement on the near west side, 1940-60
Race, class, housing, and urban renewal: dismantling the near west side
Pushing Puerto Ricans around: urban renewal, race and neighborhood change
The evolution of the Young Lords organization: From street gang to revolutionaries
From Eighteenth Street to La Dieciocho: neighborhood transformation in the age of the chicano movement
The limits of nationalism: women's activism and the founding of Mujeres Latinas en Acción
Conclusion.

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