Steel Barrio : The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940 / Michael Innis-Jiménez.
2013
F548.9.M5 I66 2016
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Title
Steel Barrio : The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940 / Michael Innis-Jiménez.
ISBN
9780814760437
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814785850.001.0001 doi
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F548.9.M5 I66 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.896872077311
Summary
Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago's steel mill neighborhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, Michael Innis-Jiménez tells the story of a vibrant, active community that continues to play a central role in American politics and society. Examining how the fortunes of Mexicans in South Chicago were linked to the environment they helped to build, Steel Barrio offers new insights into how and why Mexican Americans created community. This book investigates the years between the World Wars, the period that witnessed the first, massive influx of Mexicans into Chicago. South Chicago Mexicans lived in a neighborhood whose literal and figurative boundaries were defined by steel mills, which dominated economic life for Mexican immigrants. Yet while the mills provided jobs for Mexican men, they were neither the center of community life nor the source of collective identity. Steel Barrio argues that the Mexican immigrant and Mexican American men and women who came to South Chicago created physical and imagined community not only to defend against the ever-present social, political, and economic harassment and discrimination, but to grow in a foreign, polluted environment. Steel Barrio reconstructs the everyday strategies the working-class Mexican American community adopted to survive in areas from labor to sports to activism. This book links a particular community in South Chicago to broader issues in twentieth-century U.S. history, including race and labor, urban immigration, and the segregation of cities.
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Culture, Labor, History ; ; 10
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Migration
1. Mexico and the United States
2. Finding Work
3. People and Patterns
II. Community
4. Home and Work
5. Great and Small
6. Resistance
III. Endurance
7. The Great Depression
8. Teamwork
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Migration
1. Mexico and the United States
2. Finding Work
3. People and Patterns
II. Community
4. Home and Work
5. Great and Small
6. Resistance
III. Endurance
7. The Great Depression
8. Teamwork
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author