Title Making Mexican Chicago : from postwar settlement to the age of gentrification / Mike Amezcua

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations Series Historical Studies of Urban America Historical studies of urban America. Contents Crafting Capital -- Deportation and Demolition -- From the Jungle to Las Yardas -- Making a Brown Bungalow Belt -- Renaissance and Revolt -- Flipping Colonias -- Conclusion Summary An exploration of how the Windy City became a postwar Latinx metropolis in the face of white resistance. Though Chicago is often popularly defined by its Polish, Black, and Irish populations, Cook County is also home to the third-largest Mexican-American population in the United States. The story of Mexican immigration and integration into the city is one of complex political struggles, deeply entwined with issues of housing and neighborhood control. In Making Mexican Chicago, Mike Amezcua explores how the Windy City became a Latinx metropolis in the second half of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, working-class Chicago neighborhoods like Pilsen and Little Village became sites of upheaval and renewal as Mexican Americans attempted to build new communities in the face of white resistance that cast them as perpetual aliens. Amezcua charts the diverse strategies used by Mexican Chicagoans to fight the forces of segregation, economic predation, and gentrification, focusing on how unlikely combinations of social conservatism and the real estate market savvy paved new paths for Latinx assimilation. Making Mexican Chicago offers a powerful multiracial history of Chicago that sheds new light on the origins and endurance of urban inequality Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed April 26, 2023) Subject Mexicans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century Mexican Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century Mexican American neighborhoods -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century Urban renewal -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century Segregation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / General. Mexican American neighborhoods Mexican Americans Mexican Americans -- Housing Mexicans Segregation Urban renewal Illinois -- Chicago Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 0226815838 9780226815831

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