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Mexican Chicago
Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39
Gabriela F. Arredondo
Cloth978-0-252-03269-1
$60.00
Paper978-0-252-07497-4
$25.00
| Pub Date: | 2008 |
| Pages: | 272 pages |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 9 in. |
Becoming Mexican in early twentieth-century Chicago
Mexican Chicago builds on previous studies of Mexicans in the United States while challenging static definitions of "American" and underlying assumptions of assimilation. Gabriela F. Arredondo contends that because of the revolutionary context from which they came, Mexicans in Chicago between 1916 and 1939 were not just another ethnic group working to be assimilated into a city that has a long history of incorporating newcomers. Suggesting a new understanding of identity formation, she argues that Mexicans wielded tools of identification forged in revolutionary Mexico to collectively battle the prejudices of ethnic groups that included Poles, Italians, and the Irish, as well as African Americans. By turning inward, however, Mexicans also highlighted tremendous differences among themselves, such as gender and class. In discussing this distinctive process of becoming "Mexican" in Chicago during the early twentieth century, Arredondo not only explores how that identity was constructed but also provides telling insight into the repercussions of that identity formation process.
"Meticulously researched and cogently argued, Mexican Chicago is an intriguing, provocative, and pathbreaking study that cuts across the fields of Latino history, labor history, immigration history, and urban studies. It is a superbly crafted and theoretically satisfying history of Mexicans in the Midwest, one that will shape the direction of future research."--Vicki L. Ruiz, coeditor of American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History and Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua and Chicana Histories
Gabriela F. Arredondo is an associate professor of Latin American and Latina/o studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, and coeditor of Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader.
Series:
Statue of Liberty -- Ellis Island Centennial Series
Subjects:
History, Am.: 20th C. / Midwest Regional / Chicago / Latino/Latin American Studies / History, Immigration
