Brown in the Windy City
Subtitle: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago
By: Lilia Fernandez
Series: Historical studies of urban America; Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780226244259; 9780226244280
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Mujeres Latinas en Acción; Young Lords (Organization); Hispanic American neighborhoods; Mexicans; Mexican Americans; Puerto Ricans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mexican and Puerto Rican labor migration to Chicago; title: Putting down roots: Mexican and Puerto Rican settlement on the near west side, 1940-60; title: Race, class, housing, and urban renewal: dismantling the near west side; title: Pushing Puerto Ricans around: urban renewal, race and neighborhood change; title: The evolution of the Young Lords organization: From street gang to revolutionaries; title: From Eighteenth Street to La Dieciocho: neighborhood transformation in the age of the chicano movement; title: The limits of nationalism: women's activism and the founding of Mujeres Latinas en Acción; title: Conclusion.