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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Omar S Valerio-Jiménez; Santiago R Vaquera-Vásquez; Claire F Fox |
ISBN: | 9780252099809 025209980X |
OCLC Number: | 1105530136 |
Description: | 1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico.). |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest. |
Other Titles: | Latina Midwest reader. Latino Midwest reader. |
Responsibility: | edited by Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, and Claire F. Fox. |
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"The Reader offers something for everyone. . . . The research disrupts narratives that remove Latinos from history and from the region. . . . Current activists and allies can look to the volume for a history of resistance and a people's determination to live with dignity." --Middle West Review"This key book expands understanding of Latina/os outside of the traditional areas of the US. . . . A major addition to the histories of Latina/os and future Latina/o studies scholarship on the Midwest. . . . Recommended."--Choice"The Latina/o Midwest Reader certainly contributes to this nascent literature by bringing much needed attention to the struggles and contributions of Latinos in the Midwest."--Journal of Folklore Research Read more...

