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Title Making Mexican Chicago : from postwar settlement to the age of gentrification / Mike Amezcua.
Author Amezcua, Mike, author.
Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  977.311 AME    Check Shelves
Description 331 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Historical studies of urban America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Crafting capital -- Deportation and demolition -- From the jungle to Las Yardas -- Making a Brown Bungalow Belt -- Renaissance and revolt -- Flipping colonias.
Summary "Mike Amezcua details the complex political struggle over white-flight neighborhoods in postwar Chicago, showing that while white oppression of blacks was often based in supremacist ideologies, discrimination against Latinx peoples-especially Mexicans-was rooted in questions of sovereignty and belonging. Immigration policy was central to the "defense" of the white city. While the story of white flight from blackness is well known, Amezcua demonstrates that white fears of brownness were likewise powerful-yet they also set the terms by which Latinx community and political power did develop. As Mexicans and Mexican Americans accrues political power, they became integral to the city's economy-and increasingly tended toward social conservatism, intent on protecting the value they were creating. Their assimilation was less to whiteness per se than to white capitalist agendas"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Copy 1. Binding: Includes dust-jacket. ICU
Subject Mexicans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Mexican Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Mexican American neighborhoods -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Mexican Americans -- Housing -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Urban renewal -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Segregation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780226815824 hardcover : $45.00
022681582X hardcover
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