Description
Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernández reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one of America's great cities. Through their experiences in the city's central neighborhoods over the course of these three decades, Fernández demonstrates how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans collectively articulated a distinct racial position in Chicago, one that was flexible and fluid, neither black nor white.
Author: Lilia Fernández
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 07/21/2014
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780226212845
ISBN10: 022621284X
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- History | Latin America | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Hispanic American Studies
About the Author
Lilia Fernández is associate professor in the Department of History at Ohio State University.