Brown in the Windy City

Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

By: Lilia Fernandez

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Hardcover | 12 December 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Brown in the Windy Cityis the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernandez reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one of America's great cities. Through their experiences in the city's central neighborhoods over the course of these three decades, Fernandez demonstrates how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans collectively articulated a distinct racial position in Chicago, one that was flexible and fluid, neither black nor white.

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"With astute attention to the parallel trajectories and overlapping nature of Mexican Americans' and Puerto Ricans' histories, Lilia Fernandez paints a rich portrait of neighborhood life, moving beyond broad strokes and the white-black racial binary. Told with detail, substance, and nuance, Brown in the Windy City is an important story that is likely to become a foundational book." (Carmen Teresa Whalen, author of From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies)"

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Mexican and Puerto Rican Labor Migration to Chicago	p. 23
Putting Down Roots: Mexican and Puerto Rican Settlement on the Near West Side, 1940-60	p. 57
Race, Class, Housing, and Urban Renewal: Dismantling the Near West Side	p. 91
Pushing Puerto Ricans Around: Urban Renewal, Race, and Neighborhood Change	p. 131
The Evolution of the Young Lords Organization: From Street Gang to Revolutionaries	p. 173
From Eighteenth Street to La Dieciocho: Neighborhood Transformation in the Age of the Chicano Movement	p. 207
The Limits of Nationalism: Women's Activism and the Founding of Mujeres Latinas en Acción	p. 239
Conclusion	p. 263
Notes	p. 269
Index	p. 349
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