| Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century Contributor(s): Valdés, Dionicio Nodín (Author) |
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ISBN: 0292787448 ISBN-13: 9780292787445 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: "This is to date the most comprehensively narrated and researched work on Mexicans in the Midwest.... It clearly supersedes [past published works] and is also of higher quality, I think, than most other works published in the field of Chicano studies in recent times." -- Juan Go mez-Quin ones, Professor of History, UCLA Mexican communities in the Midwestern United States have a history that extends back to the turn of the twentieth century, when a demand for workers in several mass industries brought Mexican agricultural laborers to jobs and homes in the cities. This book offers a comprehensive social, labor, and cultural history of these workers and their descendants, using the Mexican barrio of "San Pablo" (St. Paul) Minnesota as a window on the region. Through extensive archival research and numerous interviews, Dennis Valde s explores how Mexicans created ethnic spaces in Midwestern cities and how their lives and communities have changed over the course of the twentieth century. He examines the process of community building before World War II, the assimilation of Mexicans into the industrial working class after the war, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent changes resulting from industrial restructuring and unprecedented migration and population growth. Throughout, Valde s pays particular attention to Midwestern Mexicans' experiences of inequality and struggles against domination and compares them to Mexicans' experiences in other regions of the U.S. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - History | United States - State & Local - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 977.658 |
| LCCN: 99036269 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 406 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Midwest - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota |
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| Publisher Description: Mexican communities in the Midwestern United States have a history that extends back to the turn of the twentieth century, when a demand for workers in several mass industries brought Mexican agricultural laborers to jobs and homes in the cities. This book offers a comprehensive social, labor, and cultural history of these workers and their descendants, using the Mexican barrio of San Pablo (St. Paul), Minnesota, as a window on the region. Through extensive archival research and numerous interviews, Dionicio Valdés explores how Mexicans created ethnic spaces in Midwestern cities and how their lives and communities have changed over the course of the twentieth century. He examines the process of community building before World War II, the assimilation of Mexicans into the industrial working class after the war, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent changes resulting from industrial restructuring and unprecedented migration and population growth. Throughout, Valdés pays particular attention to Midwestern Mexicans' experiences of inequality and struggles against domination and compares them to Mexicans' experiences in other regions of the U.S. |