Introduction: history, placemaking, and cultural contributions / Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, and Claire F. Fox
The browning of the Midwest
Conversations across "our America": Latinoization and the new geography of Latina/os / Louis G. Mendoza
Al norte toward home: Texas, the Midwest, and Mexican American critical regionalism / José E. Limón
Reshaping the rural heartland: immigration and migrant cultural practice in small-town America / Aidé Acosta
Essential laborers and neighbors
Mexican workers and life in South Chicago / Michael D. Innis-Jiménez
Latina/o immigration before 1965: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago / Lilia Fernández
Not just laborers: Latina/o claims of belonging in the U.S. heartland / Marta María Maldonado
La educación adelanta
Spanish language and education in the Midwest / Kim Potowski
Contesting the myth of uncaring: Latina/o parents advocating for their children / Carolyn Colvin, Jay Arduser, Elizabeth Willmore
Latina/o studies and ethnic studies in the midwest / Amelia María de la Luz Montes
Performeando the Midwest
The Black Angel: Ana Mendieta in Iowa City / Jane Blocker
History in drag: Latina/o queer affective circuits in Chicago / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
El Museo del norte: passionate praxis on the streets of Detroit / María Eugenia Cotera
Movimientos
Religious migrants: the Latina/o Mennonite quest for community and civil rights / Felipe Hinojosa
The Young Lords organization in Chicago: a short history / Darrel Wanzer-Serrano
¡Viva la causa! in Iowa / Janet Weaver
Work, coalition, and advocacy: Latinas leading in the Midwest / Theresa Delgadillo and Janet Weaver
Reconfiguring documentation: immigration, activism, and practices of visibility / Rebecca M. Schreiber
Afterword: intimate (trans)nationals /Frances R. Aparicio.