Brown in the Windy City Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Name: Brown in the Windy City Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago
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ISBN: 9780226212845

ISBN-10: 022621284X

ISBN-13: 9780226212845

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lilia Fernandez

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Like other industrial cities in the postwar period, Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north. As African American populations grew and white communities declined throughout the 1960s and '70s, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans migrated to the city, adding a complex layer to local racial dynamics. Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the postwar era. Here, Lilia Fernandez reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in the midst of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/21/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English