Brown in the Windy City : Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago /
Fernandez, Lilia.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-348) and index.
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.
Young Lords (Organization)
Mujeres Latinas en Acción
Mexicans
Mexican Americans
Puerto Ricans
Hispanic American neighborhoods