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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Trained and tractable labor
  • Families helped each other
  • A gathering place
  • Latins want parity
  • Needs of the community
  • Tangled with the police
  • Justice for our kids
  • Epilogue : fighting gentrification in the twenty-first century.

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