Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Mexican Inequality and the Midwest
  • Modeling Chicano Inequality
  • Mexicans and Midwestern Geography
• Chapter 2: Reckoning with Winter
  • Last of the Immigrants
  • Urban Farmworkers
  • Organizing and the Community
• Chapter 3: Memory of Hunger
  • The Drive to Repatriate
  • The Internal Colonia
  • Agents of Americanization
• Chapter 4: Good Solid Workers
  • An Urban Proletariat
  • Dilemmas of Americanism
  • Dismantling the Barrio
• Chapter 5: El Movimiento: Becoming a Little More Militant
  • Reconstructing a Barrio
  • El Movimiento and the Community
  • Agency and Agencies
  • The Struggle for Knowledge: Chicano Studies
• Chapter 6: Completing a Circle
  • Migration and Settlement
  • Chasing the Dream
  • Mexican Menace
  • Contradictions of Culture
• Retrospective
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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Comprehensive social, labour, and cultural history of Mexican communities in the midwestern United States

About the Author

Dionicio Nodín Valdés is Professor of History at Michigan State University.

Reviews

"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 Gomez-Quinones, Professor of History, UCLA

"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 Gomez-Quinones, Professor of History, UCLA