"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.
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