Michael Innis-Jiménez

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Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940Hardcover, 17 June 2013

Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940
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Part of Series
Culture, Labor, History
Print Length
248 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
17 Jun 2013
ISBN-10
0814785859
ISBN-13
9780814785850

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Michael Innis-Jiménez
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 June 2013
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75 cm
ISBN-10:
0814785859
ISBN-13:
9780814785850
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
248
Weight:
508.02 gm

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