Brown in the Windy City - Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Informationen zum Autor Lilia Fernández is associate professor in the Department of History at Ohio State University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Examines the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. The author reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of 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 Chicago.

Product details

• Authors: Lilia Fernandez, Lilia Fernández, Fernandez Lilia
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.2014
• EAN: 9780226212845
• ISBN: 978-0-226-21284-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban Am; Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban America (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Illinois, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General