Latina/o Midwest Reader /

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"From 2000 to 2010, the U.S. Latino population increased by 44 percent. It grew even more--by more than 73 percent--in eight out of twelve midwestern states over the same years. This interdisciplinary anthology of essays examines the history, education, literature, art, and politics of Latinos...

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Other Authors: Fox, Claire F. (Editor), Vaquera-Vásquez, Santiago R., 1966- (Editor), Valerio-Jimenez, Omar S. (Omar Santiago), 1963- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Hispanic Americans.
Civilization > Hispanic influences.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Americains d'origine latino-americaine > Acculturation > Midwest (États-Unis)
Americains d'origine latino-americaine > Midwest (États-Unis) > Conditions sociales.
Americains d'origine latino-americaine > Midwest (États-Unis) > Histoire.
Hispanic Americans > Cultural assimilation > Middle West.
Hispanic Americans > Middle West > Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans > Middle West > History.
Middle West.
Middle West > Civilization > Hispanic influences.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: history, placemaking, and cultural contributions / Omar Valerio-Jimenez, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, and Claire F. Fox
  • The browning of the Midwest
  • Conversations across "our America": Latinoization and the new geography of Latina/os / Louis G. Mendoza
  • Al norte toward home: Texas, the Midwest, and Mexican American critical regionalism / Jose E. Limón
  • Reshaping the rural heartland: immigration and migrant cultural practice in small-town America / Aide Acosta
  • Essential laborers and neighbors
  • Mexican workers and life in South Chicago / Michael D. Innis-Jimenez
  • Latina/o immigration before 1965: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago / Lilia Fernández
  • Not just laborers: Latina/o claims of belonging in the U.S. heartland / Marta María Maldonado
  • La educación adelanta
  • Spanish language and education in the Midwest / Kim Potowski
  • Contesting the myth of uncaring: Latina/o parents advocating for their children / Carolyn Colvin, Jay Arduser, Elizabeth Willmore
  • Latina/o studies and ethnic studies in the midwest / Amelia María de la Luz Montes
  • Performeando the Midwest
  • The Black Angel: Ana Mendieta in Iowa City / Jane Blocker
  • History in drag: Latina/o queer affective circuits in Chicago / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
  • El Museo del norte: passionate praxis on the streets of Detroit / María Eugenia Cotera
  • Movimientos
  • Religious migrants: the Latina/o Mennonite quest for community and civil rights / Felipe Hinojosa
  • The Young Lords organization in Chicago: a short history / Darrel Wanzer-Serrano
  • Viva la causa! in Iowa / Janet Weaver
  • Work, coalition, and advocacy: Latinas leading in the Midwest / Theresa Delgadillo and Janet Weaver
  • Reconfiguring documentation: immigration, activism, and practices of visibility / Rebecca M. Schreiber
  • Afterword: intimate (trans)nationals /Frances R. Aparicio.

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