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Making Mexican Chicago : from postwar settlement to the age of gentrification
- Title
- Making Mexican Chicago : from postwar settlement to the age of gentrification / Mike Amezcua.
- Author
- Amezcua, Mike
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F548.9.M5 A64 2022 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 331 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Mike Amezcua details the complex political struggle over white-flight neighborhoods in postwar Chicago, showing that while white oppression of blacks was often based in supremacist ideologies, discrimination against Latinx peoples-especially Mexicans-was rooted in questions of sovereignty and belonging. Immigration policy was central to the "defense" of the white city. While the story of white flight from blackness is well known, Amezcua demonstrates that white fears of brownness were likewise powerful-yet they also set the terms by which Latinx community and political power did develop. As Mexicans and Mexican Americans accrues political power, they became integral to the city's economy-and increasingly tended toward social conservatism, intent on protecting the value they were creating. Their assimilation was less to whiteness per se than to white capitalist agendas"--
- Series Statement
- Historical studies of urban America
- Uniform Title
- Historical studies of urban America.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Mexicans > Chicago > History > 20th century
- Mexican Americans > Chicago > History > 20th century
- Mexican American neighborhoods > Chicago > History > 20th century
- Mexican Americans > Housing > Chicago
- Urban renewal > Chicago > History > 20th century
- Segregation > Chicago > History > 20th century
- Mexicains > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siècle
- Américains d'origine mexicaine > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siècle
- Américains d'origine mexicaine > Logement > Chicago
- Rénovation urbaine > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siècle
- Ségrégation > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siècle
- HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
- Mexican American neighborhoods
- Mexican Americans
- Mexican Americans > Housing
- Mexicans
- Segregation
- Urban renewal
- Illinois > Chicago
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Binding (note)
- Binding: Includes dust-jacket.
- Contents
- Crafting capital -- Deportation and demolition -- From the jungle to Las Yardas -- Making a Brown Bungalow Belt -- Renaissance and revolt -- Flipping colonias.
- ISBN
- 9780226815824
- 022681582X
- 9780226815831 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021050846
- OCLC
- on1280405786
- 1280405786
- SCSB-14300665
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries