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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
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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.
