Mexican Chicago Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39

Name: Mexican Chicago Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39
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ISBN: 9780252074974

ISBN-10: 0252074971

ISBN-13: 9780252074974

Edition: 2007

Authors: Gabriela F. Arredondo

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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…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Gabriela Arredondo is an associate professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, and coeditor of Chicana Feminisms: Disruptions in Dialogue.