Making the MexiRican City : Migration, Placemaking, and Activism in Grand Rapids, Michigan /

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"Large numbers of Latino migrants began to arrive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the 1950s. They joined a small but established Spanish-speaking community of people from Texas, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Delia Fernández-Jones merges storytelling with historical analysis to recapture the placemaki...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fernández, Delia M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Puerto Ricans > Social conditions.
Mexican Americans > Social conditions.
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans > Politics and government.
Hispanic Americans.
Ethnic relations.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies.
Immigrants > Michigan > Grand Rapids > Social conditions.
Puerto Ricans > Michigan > Grand Rapids > Social conditions.
Mexican Americans > Michigan > Grand Rapids > Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans > Michigan > Grand Rapids > Politics and government.
Hispanic Americans > Michigan > Grand Rapids > History.
Michigan > Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids (Mich.) > Race relations.
Grand Rapids (Mich.) > Ethnic relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Large numbers of Latino migrants began to arrive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the 1950s. They joined a small but established Spanish-speaking community of people from Texas, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Delia Fernández-Jones merges storytelling with historical analysis to recapture the placemaking practices that these Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans used to create a new home for themselves. Faced with entrenched white racism and hostility, Latinos of different backgrounds formed powerful relationships to better secure material needs like houses and jobs and to recreate community cultural practices. Their pan-Latino solidarity crossed ethnic and racial boundaries and shaped activist efforts that emphasized working within the system to advocate for social change. In time, this interethnic Latino alliance exploited cracks in both overt and structural racism and attracted white and Black partners to fight for equality in social welfare programs, policing, and education. Groundbreaking and revelatory, Making the MexiRican City details how disparate Latino communities came together to respond to social, racial, and economic challenges"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations.
ISBN:9780252053993

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