near Northwest Side Story Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families

Name: near Northwest Side Story Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families
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ISBN: 9780520233683

ISBN-10: 0520233689

ISBN-13: 9780520233683

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gina Perez

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In The Near Northwest Side Story, Gina M. Peacute;rez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico--two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information. Peacute;rez's masterful blend of history and ethnography explores the multiple and gendered reasons for migration, why people maintain transnational connections with distant communities, and how poor and working-class Puerto Ricans work to build meaningful communities. Peacute;rez traces the changing ways that Puerto Ricans have experienced poverty, displacement, and discrimination and illustrates how they imagine and build extended…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Gina M. Pï¿½rez is Associate Professor in the Comparative American Studies program at Oberlin College. She is the author of The Near Northwest Side Story: Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families.



List of Figures


Preface



Introduction: A Gendered Tale of Two Barrios



"Fleeing the Cane" and the Origins of Displacement



"Know Your Fellow American Citizen from Puerto Rico"



Los de Afuera, Transnationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Identity



Gentrification, Intrametropolitan Migration, and the Politics of Place



Transnational Lives, Kin Work, and Strategies of Survival



Conclusion: Revisiting the Gender, Poverty, and Migration Debate


Notes


Bibliography


Index