Latina/o Midwest Reader

Omar Valerio-Jiménez is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the author of River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands. Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez is an associate professor of Hispanic Southwest studies at the University of New Mexico and the author of One Day I’ll Tell You the Things I’ve Seen: Stories. Claire F. Fox is a professor in the departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa and the author of Making Art Panamerican: Cultural Policy and the Cold War.
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List of contents

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: History, Placemaking, and Cultural Contributions - Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaqu

Part 1. The Browning of the Midwest

Conversations across "Our America": Latinoization and the New Geography of Latinas/os - Louis Men

Al Norte toward Home: Texas, the Midwest, and Mexican American Critical Regionalism - José E. Limón

Reshaping the Rural Heartland: Immigration and Migrant Cultural Practice in Small-Town America - Aide Acosta

Part 2. Essential Laborers and Neighbors

Mexican Workers and Life in South Chicago - Michael Innis-Jiménez

Latina/o Immigration before 1965: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago - Lilia Fernández

Not Just Laborers: Latina/o Claims of Belonging in the U.S. Heartland - Marta María Maldonado

Part 3. La educación adelanta

Spanish Language and Education in the Midwest - Kim Potowski

Contesting the Myth of Uncaring: Latina/o Parents Advocating for Their Children - Carolyn Colvin, Ja

Latina/o Studies and Ethnic Studies in the Midwest - Amelia María de la Luz Montes

Part 4. Performeando the Midwest

The Black Angel: Ana Mendieta in Iowa City - Jane Blocker

History in Drag: Latina/o Queer Affective Circuits in Chicago - Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

El Museo del Norte: Passionate Praxis on the Streets of Detroit - María Eugenia Cotera

Part 5. Movimientos

Religious Migrants: The Latina/o Mennonite Quest for Community and Civil Rights - Felipe Hinojosa

The Young Lords Organization in Chicago: A Short History - Darrel Wanzer-Serrano

¡Viva La Causa! in Iowa - Janet Weaver

Work, Coalition, and Advocacy: Latinas Leading in the Midwest - Theresa Delgadillo and Janet Weaver

Reconfiguring Documentation: Immigration, Activism, and Practices of Visibility - Rebecca M. Schreib

Afterword: Intimate (Trans)Nationals - Frances R. Aparicio

Glossary

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

About the author

Omar Valerio-Jimenez , Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez

Product details

• Authors: Omar (EDT)/ Vaquera-vasquez Valerio-jimenez, Omar Vaquera-Vasquez Valerio-Jimenez
• Assisted by: Omar Valerio-Jimenez (Editor), Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780252082771
• ISBN: 978-0-252-08277-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Latinos in Chicago and Midwest; Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore