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Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago (Historical Studies of Urban America)

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Brown within the Windy City is the first history to inspect the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago Lilia Fernandez reveals how the 2 populations arrived in Chicago in the course of tremendous social and economic change and despite declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one among The usa s great cities Through their experiences within the city s central neighborhoods over the course of these three decades Fernandez demonstrates how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans collectively articulated a distinct racial position in Chicago one that was once flexible and fluid neither black nor white Examines the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago The creator reveals how the 2 populations arrived in Chicago in the course of social and economic change and despite declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in Chicago Like other industrial cities within the postwar period Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north As African American populations grew and white communities declined right through the 1960s and 70s Mexicans and Puerto Ricans migrated to the city adding a complex layer to local racial dynamics Brown within the Windy City is the first history to inspect the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans within the postwar era Here Lilia Fernandez reveals how the 2 populations arrived in Chicago in the course of tremendous social and economic change and in the course of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one among The usa s great cities Over the course of these three decades through their experiences within the city s central neighborhoods Fernndez demonstrates how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans

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