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Brown in the Windy City : Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago / Lilia Fernandez.

By: Fernandez, Lilia [author.].
Material type: TextTextSeries: Historical studies of urban America: Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2012Edition: Paperback edition.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-348) and index.Description: xii, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226212845; 022621284X.Subject(s): Young Lords (Organization) | Mujeres Latinas en Acción -- History | Mexicans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century | Mexican Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century | Puerto Ricans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century | Hispanic American neighborhoods -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century | Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century | Pilsen (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 305.89/6872077311
Contents:
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.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 305.896 F3912 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Please give the book to Urszula Kassel 34284003741295

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.

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