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Author : Mara A. Rodríguez López
Release : 1978
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Book Synopsis The Perception of Barrio and Community Boundaries by Hispanic Residents of Washington by : Mara A. Rodríguez López
Download or read book The Perception of Barrio and Community Boundaries by Hispanic Residents of Washington written by Mara A. Rodríguez López. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Telgen
Release : 1993
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Notable Hispanic American Women by : Diane Telgen
Download or read book Notable Hispanic American Women written by Diane Telgen. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains short biographies of three hundred Hispanic American women who have achieved national or international prominence in a variety of fields.
Author : Michael Innis-Jiménez
Release : 2013-06-17
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Steel Barrio by : Michael Innis-Jiménez
Download or read book Steel Barrio written by Michael Innis-Jiménez. This book was released on 2013-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago’s steel mill neighborhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, Michael Innis-Jiménez tells the story of a vibrant, active community that continues to play a central role in American politics and society. Examining how the fortunes of Mexicans in South Chicago were linked to the environment they helped to build, Steel Barrio offers new insights into how and why Mexican Americans created community. This book investigates the years between the World Wars, the period that witnessed the first, massive influx of Mexicans into Chicago. South Chicago Mexicans lived in a neighborhood whose literal and figurative boundaries were defined by steel mills, which dominated economic life for Mexican immigrants. Yet while the mills provided jobs for Mexican men, they were neither the center of community life nor the source of collective identity. Steel Barrio argues that the Mexican immigrant and Mexican American men and women who came to South Chicago created physical and imagined community not only to defend against the ever-present social, political, and economic harassment and discrimination, but to grow in a foreign, polluted environment. Steel Barrio reconstructs the everyday strategies the working-class Mexican American community adopted to survive in areas from labor to sports to activism. This book links a particular community in South Chicago to broader issues in twentieth-century U.S. history, including race and labor, urban immigration, and the segregation of cities.
Author : Eduardo Canel
Release : 2010-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Barrio Democracy in Latin America by : Eduardo Canel
Download or read book Barrio Democracy in Latin America written by Eduardo Canel. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition to democracy underway in Latin America since the 1980s has recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in experimenting with new forms of local governance emphasizing more participation by ordinary citizens. The hope is both to foster the spread of democracy and to improve equity in the distribution of resources. While participatory budgeting has been a favorite topic of many scholars studying this new phenomenon, there are many other types of ongoing experiments. In Barrio Democracy in Latin America, Eduardo Canel focuses our attention on the innovative participatory programs launched by the leftist government in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the early 1990s. Based on his extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Canel examines how local activists in three low-income neighborhoods in that city dealt with the opportunities and challenges of implementing democratic practices and building better relationships with sympathetic city officials.
Author : Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
Release : 2003-07-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis National Performances by : Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
Download or read book National Performances written by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas. This book was released on 2003-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas explores how Puerto Ricans in Chicago construct and perform nationalism. Contrary to characterizations of nationalism as a primarily unifying force, Ramos-Zayas finds that it actually provides the vocabulary to highlight distinctions along class, gender, racial, and generational lines among Puerto Ricans, as well as between Puerto Ricans and other Latino, black, and white populations. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Ramos-Zayas shows how the performance of Puerto Rican nationalism in Chicago serves as a critique of social inequality, colonialism, and imperialism, allowing barrio residents and others to challenge the notion that upward social mobility is equally available to all Americans—or all Puerto Ricans. Paradoxically, however, these activists' efforts also promote upward social mobility, overturning previous notions that resentment and marginalization are the main results of nationalist strategies. Ramos-Zayas's groundbreaking work allows her here to offer one of the most original and complex analyses of contemporary nationalism and Latino identity in the United States.
