@article{1479942,
      recid = {1479942},
      author = {Innis-Jiménez, Michael, },
      title = {Steel Barrio : The Great Mexican Migration to South  Chicago, 1915-1940 /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479942},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814785850.001.0001},
}