Latinos in Chicago and Midwest: Latina/o Midwest Reader (ePub)

From 2000 to 2010, the Latino population increased by more than 73 percent across eight midwestern states. These interdisciplinary essays explore issues of history, education, literature, art, and politics defining today's Latina/o Midwest. Some contributors delve into the Latina/o revitalization of rural areas, where communities have launched bold experiments in dual-language immersion education while seeing integrated neighborhoods, churches, and sports teams become the norm. Others reveal metro areas as laboratories for emerging Latino subjectivities, places where for some, the term Latina/o itself corresponds to a new type of lived identity as different Latina/o groups interact in shared neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.
Eye-opening and provocative, The Latina/o Midwest Reader rewrites the conventional wisdom on today's Latina/o community and how it faces challenges—and thrives—in the heartland.
Contributors: Aidé Acosta, Frances R. Aparicio, Jay Arduser, Jane Blocker, Carolyn Colvin, María Eugenia Cotera, Theresa Delgadillo, Lilia Fernández, Claire F. Fox, Felipe Hinojosa, Michael D. Innis-Jiménez, José E. Limón, Marta María Maldonado, Louis G. Mendoza, Amelia María de la Luz Montes, Kim Potowski, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Rebecca M. Schreiber, Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Janet Weaver, and Elizabeth Willmore|
Title
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: History, Placemaking, and Cultural Contributions - Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaqu
Part 1. The Browning of the Midwest
Conversations across "Our America": Latinoization and the New Geography of Latinas/os - Louis Men
Al Norte toward Home: Texas, the Midwest, and Mexican American Critical Regionalism - José E. Limón
Reshaping the Rural Heartland: Immigration and Migrant Cultural Practice in Small-Town America - Aide Acosta
Part 2. Essential Laborers and Neighbors
Mexican Workers and Life in South Chicago - Michael Innis-Jiménez
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
Part 3. 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, Ja
Latina/o Studies and Ethnic Studies in the Midwest - Amelia María de la Luz Montes
Part 4. 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
Part 5. 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. Schreib
Afterword: Intimate (Trans)Nationals - Frances R. Aparicio
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors
Index|Omar Valerio-Jiménez is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the author of River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands. Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez is an associate professor of Hispanic Southwest studies at the University of New Mexico and the author of One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen: Stories. Claire F. Fox is a professor in the...